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 of which a dozen were assembled, covered with maids and matrons, in rainbow-hued gowns and smart coaching-hats.

Equestrians were there, too, and a group of people standing and sitting in the corner, where stood a covered platform filled with chairs.

The horses and their trappings were magnificent, and the sloping beams of light thrown by the afternoon sun revealed a spectacle of glittering wealth and display which is not surpassed in any city of the world.

So thought Larkington, and so said Larkington, with that British frankness which, if it brusquely sneers at times at American manners and solecisms, quite as freely and magnanimously praises, on occasion.

"There comes the coach with the President," said one of the bachelors from the tent; "the game will be called in five minutes. Are you ready, Larkington?" The Englishman for answer threw off his cover coat, and, standing revealed in his white