Show game to the th last the pluck for which english people are t re noted is iq an admirable quality it has carried them a brood many touch matches at home and abroad A sketch of the late lord drayton shows us an arousing exhibition of thia national characteristic the author of the sketch was accompanying the earl then eighty five beirs years of age down tho the stairs to see him lately into his cab on descending the they were medby met by a cheery old gen gentleman tieman little of stature mr john levien letien who was waa slowly ascending hat lu in baud band mopping the dew daw off his bald head with his pocket handkerchief the writer knowing that both his friends nr orangers angers to each other were wars proud of their ages said to them as they met on the stairs let me introduce decea a gentleman of eighty five to a gentleman of eighty two beigh eighty ty two sirl siri echoed the earl slightly lifting his hat to mr letien TU run you yon round the tha square for a fiver 11 some days afterward mr levien letien called on the writer again and remarked slowly and with much solemnity been thinking a great deal about that challenge I 1 wish I 1 had taken it if youths j |