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feelings of the keenest, the most ardent sportsman, and 

 the cold dinner is taken with a keenness of appetite, and 

 a degree of enjoyment, known only to those whose gas- 

 tric organs have been prepared by such means. 



After the day's sport is over, still the interest does not 

 cease, for the parties recount to each other, on the way 

 home, the pleasures, and circumstances of the day. 

 And finally after such a day of exercise, both of mind 

 and body, there follows such a night of repose, as the 

 stayer-at-home cannot appreciate, and such a breakfast 

 in the morning as princes seldom enjoy. 



RIDING. 



" Of all exercises," says Dr. Ticknor, " riding is most 

 conducive to health, and to vigor of the constitution, but 

 as a good thing may bo improperly^ or imprudently used f 

 so riding sometimes produces an effect contrary to what 

 is intended. Those who are not accustomed to riding 

 are most apt to suffer the pleasure, and exhilaration 

 being so great, that fatigue or exhaustion are induced 

 when they are least expected. In cold weather, people 

 unused to carriage exercise are apt to think the same 

 quantity of clothing necessary in walking, will be an 

 adequate protection when riding. Often, a person will 

 not experience a sensation of cold, he will not be aware 

 that his body is becoming chilled, till he alights from his 

 carriage, or till he approaches the fire, when he becomes 

 fully sensible that his ride has been too protracted. 

 Those who are in good health do not often experience any 

 more than a temporary inconvenience from this cause, 

 but in the delicate it is sufficient to be followed by a seri- 

 ous illness. In summer a drive towards nightfall is truly 

 delicious, and is believed to be conducive to heajth 

 and so, indeed, it is, with due precaution but at such 

 times females are generally thinly clad, and a thin dress 

 affords little protection from the damp, and chilly air of 

 an evening." 



" There seems, in the present age, a wonderful pro- 

 pensity to be hurried through the world ; not only is it 

 convenient for the man of business to be transported by 



