VUl 



Wlien the amusements of the higher 

 (•kisses of soeiety contribute largely to the 

 convenience and prosperity of the whole com- 

 munity, they may justly claim an eminent 

 rank amongst the sources of national utility ; 

 and the English horse, for all the various 

 purposes of pleasure and business, is now 

 preferred to those of any other country in 

 Europe. 



There is a sort of witchery, not easily 

 defined — but, by its votaries, pretty sensibly 

 felt, in hunting the fox. The light-hearted, 

 high-spirited stripling, when cigaring it care- 

 lessly to cover, with a kind of a knowing demi- 

 devil-may-care twist of his beaver, receives in 

 his transit a benison from every real friend of 

 the chase he may chance to pass ; and the 

 airy, eager zeal of the youthful aspirant to 

 7'olls, tumbles, and the brush, will flush his 

 memory with the frolic gayety of other days, 

 and animate his mind with reflections most 

 welcome to his heart. 



