To do at least the first, it was resolved that we should visit the worthy gentleman en masse, to give him, the opportunity of exercising his hospitlity upon the present occasion, an acceptance of which, as he had an extremely agreeable wife, and some remarkably pretty cousins, we naturally preferred to the male, matter-of-fact dinner at our ostelry, which, however agreeable per se, sank to mortal dulness by comparison, in our then young minds , with the coterie, or more properly the petticoatery, at the castellated mansion of our presumed host.

My presagings of his downfall soon proved accurate.

speaking of the great simplicity we commit, in leaving yong children under the government and charge of their fathers and parents.

The leaping horse easily cleared the hurdles.