American turf register and sporting magazine (1839) (14595020820)

Identifier: americanturfregi10skin (find matches)
Title: American turf register and sporting magazine
Year: 1839 (1830s)
Authors: Skinner, J. S., ed
Subjects: Horse-racing Horses Sports
Publisher: Baltimore, Md. : J.S. Skinner
Contributing Library: University of New Hampshire Library
Digitizing Sponsor: University of New Hampshire Library



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k,iS the Dragon-sleigh of the very handsomest man in the world, honoredby the company of Lady Blessington, who, if not the handsomestwoman, is certainly the most entrainante and delightful. The horsein his day, too, was the finest known horse, and the dog, the noblestknown dog in the universe—of Paris. Four better portraits, forthe size and distance, were never drawn. The Count and LadyBlessington look like those celebrities seen through a reversed opera-glass. It is a characteristic instance of the superb extravagance ofthe cupidon dechaine that the whole turn-out, including the snow-shedders upon his legs, was got up upon the mere chance of a quin-tennial or septennial *snow. Yet he comes rightly by it, for it was oneof the extravagances of his father, (who was called DOrsay le Beau)that every hinge in his drawing rooms was a musical-box, and playedthe guest into his presence. Why are not constellations given tosuch men—with a star or two extra for pin-money, to their fair Coun-
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■4 I- KILLING TROUT OUT OF SEASON. 131 tesses ? They would spend you the Pleiades, before you could them,the missing one and all. To return to the picture, it was done by a master, and is a true one,not merely of the faces, but remarkably of the attitudes and air ^f theCount and the Countess, his belle-mere. So stepped the horse, sobounded the dog. Our readers may be sure that of all the Engravingsby Chalon, Paris, and Sir Thomas Lawrence, and others, they havehere the best known likeness of Lady Blessington. KILLING TROUT OUT OF SEASON. Washington City, April 29, 1839. Nothing annoys an old Sportsman so much as the killing* of gameout of season, and nothing distresses a true disciple of old Izaakmore than taking trout before May day. The writer of this belongsto Izaaks school, and, if you will have it so, to the aristocraticbranch, to wit : fly fishing. Judge, then, of my feelings when read-ing in the last number of the Register, an article headed TroutFishing on Long Island, and t