No wonder, then, reader, when I tell you that "loafing" up and down Broadway is a favourite occupation with the young men who have leisure hours to spare.

So attractive did my young friend of the Household Brigade find it, that it was with difficulty he was ever induced to forego his daily pilgrimage.

Alas! poor fellow, those days are gone--he has since been "caught," and another now claims his undivided adoration..