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252 by riotous living. He was not fond of field-sports, but used to go out with his dogs to hunt, for an appetite. If he felt any delightful approaches of hunger, he would cry out, "Oh, I have found it!" and ride home again, though in the middle of the finest chase. "You see," said Pope, "there is no fool without some portion of sense." Gay gave me more the idea of a clever child; he was dressed with the greatest neatness, and did not dislike a little raillery about his toilet. He has a sweet, placid expression of countenance; and an excellent appetite, which quite belied the melancholy manner in which he told us of his disappointments at court. He quoted that deeply pathetic passage of Spencer's,—