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an equal proportion. Among Orientals you can 

 often tell a man's income by his weight. As 

 soon as he can afford to sit still he seldom takes 

 any exercise. One of the Eastern princes, on 

 being taken to Almack's, could not understand 

 why we did not make our servants do the 

 dancinsf while we looked at them. 



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There is not an enterprising manufacturer 

 in England who has amassed a large fortune 

 who may not feel sure, however little he may 

 happen to care for rod and gun himself, but 

 that some of his descendants will be spending 

 the splendid means he will leave at their dis- 

 posal in ransacking every corner of the known 

 globe in pursuit of sport. 



Pigeon-shooting is considered the most 

 cruel form of shooting, but even here people 

 make a mistake. Possibly no such blessing 

 could have been invented for the pigeons as the 

 revival of this sport, as they are now breeding 

 in happy hundreds where but few used to exist. 



