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am sure she was not more fascinating than you. But 

 long before one hundred years shall pass, my friend, ladies 

 in your station will be equally amazed that you could so 

 torture a poor hare or fox and feel it to be not only 

 not unworthy of a lady but a source of enjoyment to 

 you. I say your grandchild will blush for her grandma 

 as she shows ,to her children the picture of your lovely 

 face. What Queen Elizabeth is now in your eyes, what 

 Roman emperors in the bloody Coliseum were in hers, 

 you will be in the eyes of the third generation after 

 you. Think of this. Remember what Cowper says : 



" I would not rank among my list of friends, 

 Though graced with polished manners and fine sense, 

 That man who needlessly sets foot upon a worm." 



Men will give up such sports after a time ; but surely 

 we may expect women to find even in this day not only 

 no pleasure but even positive pain in such sports and 

 leave them to coarser natures. 



Another day was marked by the exhibition of an 

 Italian tumbler, who displayed " such feats of agilitee, 

 in goinges, turninges, tumblinges, castings, hops, jumps, 

 leaps, skips, springs, gambaud, soomersauts, caprettiez, 

 and flights ; forward, backward, sydewize, a doownward, 

 upward, and with sundry windings, gyrings and circum- 

 flexions ; allso lightly and with such eaziness, as by me 

 in feaw words it is not expressibl by pen or speech I 

 tell yoo plain." On the second Sunday, after a " frute- 

 full Sermon," a " solemn Brydeale of a proper Coopl 



