CHAPTER V. Summer in Baden-Baden--The Late Emperor William no Judge of Wine--My Irish Doctor--His Horror of Water--How an American Girl tried to Captivate Him--The Louisiana Judge--I win the Toss and get the Mule--The Judge “fixes” his Pony--The “Pike Ballet,” 55 CHAPTER VI. Winter in Pau--I hire a perfect Villa for $800 a year--Luxury at Small Cost--I Learn how to give Dinners--Fraternizing with the Bordeaux Wine Merchants--The Judge’s Wild Scheme--I get him up a Dinner--General Bosquet--The Pau Hunt--The Frenchmen wear beautiful Pink Coats, but their Horses wont Jump--Only the General took the Ditch, 65 CHAPTER VII. My Return to New York--Dinner to a well-known Millionaire--Visit of Lord Frederick Cavendish, Hon. E. Ashley, and G. W. des Voeux to the United States--I Entertain them at my Southern Home--My Father’s Old Friends resent my Manner of Entertaining--Her Majesty’s Consul disgruntled--Cedar Wash-tubs and Hot Sheets for my English Guests--Shooting Snipe over the Rice Lands--Scouring the Country for Pretty Girls, 77 CHAPTER VIII. A Southern Deer Park--A Don Quixote Steed--We Hunt for Deer and Bag a Turkey--Getting a Dinner by Force--The French Chef and the Colored Cook Contrasted--One is Inspired, the Other follows Tradition--Making a Sauce of Herbs and Cream--Shooting Ducks across the Moon--A Dawfuskie Pic-nic, 89 CHAPTER IX. I Leave the South--A Typical British Naval Officer--An Officer of the Household Troops--Early Newport Life--A Country Dinner--The Way I got up Pic-nics--Farmers throw their Houses Open to Us--A Bride receives us in her Bridal Array--My Newport Farm--My Southdowns and my Turkeys--What an English Lady said of our Little Island--Newport a place to take Social Root in, 107 CHAPTER X. Society’s Leaders--A Lady whose Dinners were Exquisite and whose Wines were Perfect--Her “Blue Room Parties”--Two Colonial Beauties--The Introduction of the Chef--The Prince of Wales in New York--The Ball in his Honor at the Academy of Music--The Fall of the Dancing Platform--Grotesque Figures cut by the Dancers--The Prince dances Well--Admirable Supper Arrangements--A Light Tea and a Big Appetite--The Prince at West Point--I get a Snub from General Scott, 123 CHAPTER XI. A Handsome, Courtly Man--A Turkey Chase--A Visit to Livingston Manor--An Ideal Life--On Horseback from Staatsburg to New York--Village Inn Dinners--I entertain a Fashionable Party at the Gibbons Mansion--An Old House Rejuvenated--The Success of the Party--Country Life may be enjoyed here as well as in England if one has the Money and the Inclination for it--It means Hard Work for the Host, though, 139 CHAPTER XII.