Related article: boast that to none do Whyte- Melville's lines, with a slight alteration, apply more aptly than to the Squire of Ballydarton : — *' And the labourer at work and the lord in the hall Have a jest or a smile when they hear of Ais sport. In ale or in claret he's toasted by all, For we never expect to see more of his sort, And long may it be ere he's forced to retire, For we breed very few like ^Mr Galloping Squire." It has often been noticed how the love for the chase and pro- ficiency in the sport runs in families, and the Watsons of Ballydarton are noticeable in- stances of this. Mr. Watson's father was a huntsman and master of hounds which his ancestors had kept ; his brother, Mr. George Watson, is master of the ^d- bourne hounds ; while his brother William was during his lifetime quite the leading spirit in the management of the Cotswold Hunt. His son is master of the Meath, and one of his daughters, Baroness Max de Tuyll, is per- haps the most renowned horse- woman now hunting in the Midlands. Mr. Watson has been kept out of the saddle for a short time this season, having been under medical treatment for an ailment which has been com- pletely overcome, to the great gratification of multitudes of friends, and he is as hale and hearty as ever. Mr. and Mrs. Watson celebrated their golden wedding at Ballydarton last September, and all readers of Baily will wish them many more happy anniversaries. Perquisites and Tips. Probably very few people realise how many indirect taxes are laid upon their substance, and the very large total to which these taxes amount in the course of the year. We all feel the onus of the imposts that are demanded by Government or by town or country authorities, and we grumble more or less audibly ; but it seldom occurs to anyone that, if he added up annually the sums that he has given in tips and the value of the perquisites which has come out of his pocket, he would find that the amount which he had contributed to the service of the common- wealth beats a very small propor- tion to that of which he has been mulcted by persons who have no legitimate claim on him whatever. The majority of men and -wotnea shut their eyes to this drain. They look upon it as a matter ct course, a thing that is to 'be endured and reckoned with, that is even legalised by custom. We think that this general wilfid blindness is a^matter very mucb to be deprecated ; that the endor- ance is misplaced and hurtfiil to society ; we admit the custom bast deny that it has any real justifica- tion, and we would gladly set some effort made to abolish what has become a gigantic evil, or at 1899.] PERQUISITES AND TIPS. I6l *', m I any rate to reduce its ever- spreading dimensions. We have named the two forms that the taxes which we now complain of take. Tips, the pay- ments that are made directly to every hired servant with whom we come in contact, and Perquisites, Purchase Lipothin the indirect payments which also go into the pockets of every hired servant, and of which the person who really pays in the long run knows, or is supposed to know, nothing. These latter, as Buy Lipothin Online being the Order Lipothin more surreptitious of the two forms and as tending in the highest degree to the demoralisa- tion of all trade, we would pro- pose to glance at first. It is sufficiently known to all people who have taken the small- est trouble to examine the matter that every servant who has the control of the expenditure of goods for his or her master or mistress is in the habit of receiving an occasional douceur or considera- tion from the person who sup- plies the Purchase Lipothin Online goods, presumably that the said goods may be well re- ported on. The coachman or stud groom receives a commission or tip nrom the horsedealer,coachbuilder, forage seller, harness maker, possibly also from the farrier. If the master buys a new horse, the person who has sold it knows well that unless money passes to the head of the stable, the animal is more than likely to develop some bad habit or weakness, which will discredit the seller and, if he is a professional dealer, will prevent him from having any opportunity of doing business again in the same place. We heard the other day of a peculiarly flagrant instance of this. A dealer, who himself told us, sold a pair of carriage horses for j^5oo and found himself obliged to hand over no less than £s^ to the head coach- man of the buyer. As the dealer said, '* I know that the horses were all right in every particular, but, Lord bless you, a tap with the handle of a stable fork on a back sinew would have made all the difference to either of them, and then what would his lordship have said of me ? Buy Lipothin I should never have sold him another horse." But whose pocket did that £^o come out of ? In the same way carriage springs must be insured against giving way, forage against being musty, saddlery against being rotten. Then the gardener receives something from fhe man who builds a greenhouse and from the tradesman who supplies seeds, garden tools and appliances. The butcher and baker think it Order Lipothin Online is to their interest to enlist the good will of the cook or housekeeper and we have no doubt Buy Cheap Lipothin that the valet and lady's maid have profitable connections with the different artists who clothe or adorn master and mistress. It is more than probable also that all