If you go down to Ascot races on an old Norwich coach, at twenty
shillings a head, when you leave it and get on the course, say, "a man
you know (the coachman) brought you down on his drag (the coach)." In
going home be careful to conceal yourself, that you may not be
discovered jolly, pelting open landaus with pin-cushions, or making a
banner of your pocket-handkerchief tied to a walking-stick. Do not go up
to carriages whose inmates you know until the race is over: you will
then get lunch, and will not be asked by the girls to join a
sweepstakes, which never pays.
If not in funds, hide at home, on the Derby day; and when you go out at
night declare you never saw a better race. The position of the horses
may be read for nothing on the pen-and-ink placard outside the _Globe_
and _Sun_ offices.
The angler this month will find fish most abundant at Blackwall and
Greenwich. Almost all sorts may be readily taken with brown bread and
butter.
That otter hunting is in season this month, as the almanacks gravely
assure us. When the thermometer stands at ninety in the shade, there
cannot well be _"otter" hunting_.
THE ZODIAC—JULY.
LEO.-ANDROCLES.
A LAY OF ANCIENT HISTORY.