Show garne game to tile tast the pluck for which english people are arc noted is ill an admirable quality it hs has h s carried them it a good many touch matches ma ches at homo and abroad A sketch ol of ahe late lord drayton shows us an amt tsing exhibition of this ra fa dional aba cba characteristic the author of the sketch was accompany pauvin ing the earl then eighty five years of age dawn the stairs to seo see him safely into his cab on descending the stairs they were met by a cheery old gentlemen little of stature mr john levien who was slowly we ending list lia nt in hand band mopping the dew oz oil his bald head with his pocket handkerchief tho the writer knowing that both his friends strangers to each other were proud of their ages said to then thein as they met on the stairs let me introduce a gentleman of eighty five fire to a gentleman of eighty two eighty two wo sir echoed the earl sli slightly attly liff in his hat to mr lcuien ill run you round the square for a fiver some days afterward mr levien culled or on the writer again and remarked slowly and wilh much solemnity ive been thinkie thin kii a great acal deal about that challenge I 1 visit I 1 had taken it youths companion |