. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. 268 >Jxt %xtt&zK aud J>y0rtsmmt. April 26 Among1 the Fancy. Never -was a truer saying than the one of London being a world within itself. It is not the casual visitor that finds out these facts from experience, because it takes years of constant residence, and a wonderful degree of cariosity on the part of the sojourner to fathom them even then. London, of all cities in the world, is one in which wealth and poverty, virtue and vice, dwell in absurd proximity to each other. Few of the thousands of rich folks who loll about the grand alUe of Covent Gard
. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. 268 >Jxt %xtt&zK aud J>y0rtsmmt. April 26 Among1 the Fancy. Never -was a truer saying than the one of London being a world within itself. It is not the casual visitor that finds out these facts from experience, because it takes years of constant residence, and a wonderful degree of cariosity on the part of the sojourner to fathom them even then. London, of all cities in the world, is one in which wealth and poverty, virtue and vice, dwell in absurd proximity to each other. Few of the thousands of rich folks who loll about the grand alUe of Covent Garden (with its curious collections of rare fruits and flowers) dream of the miserable haunts so close at hand as those in Charles street, Han- way Court, and other streetlets which go to make up the quarter of Drury Lane, nor do the thousands of fair ladies and fine gents who drive and promenade down Oxford street and around Soho Square conceive what their fellow-creatures in the Dials and the streets running into them are like. Yet, to know London and get initiated into the resorts of the "Fancy," not only must these places be read of, but become familiar by constant fre- quentation, and the habitues of them culti- vated. In King street, just a few doors from the Five Dials, is the famous little public, for years kept by "Jemmie ; Now, how can a man be posted on London sports with- out having made the acquaintance of this char- acter? Old Jemmie could and did boast of hav- ing shaken the hands of as many "haristo- crats"as any man in "; A seance at his house par ticJxrter party was on, was indeed a scene not to be forgotten. Leading out of the little, low, dingy tap-room was a parlorâa long, narrow room, low in the , ceiling and furnished with one table in the center, and two cushioned benches on either aide of it, and occupying its entire length. At the far end was seated the veteren host; al- ways in his shirt sleeves, arm
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