General 



FOR THE 



HEALTH AND COMFORT OF A YOUNG SPORTSMAN. 



THE last part of the work that it would afford me 

 any pleasure to dilate on is that of cookery. For it 

 is an old, though a just, observation, that we should 

 eat to live, not live to eat. But when, by adding a 

 short paragraph or two, I can, perhaps, put some of 

 our young sportsmen, or young " foragers," up to 

 what, in the language of the present day, is called 

 a " wrinkle," I may possibly be the means of 

 saving them from unnecessarily hard fare, when 

 quartered in a pothouse, on some shooting or fishing 

 excursion. As many of the little publicans chiefly 

 live on fat pork and tea; or, if on the coast, red 

 herrings ; the experienced traveller well knows, that, 

 when in a retired place of this sort, where, from the 

 very circumstance of the misery attending it, there 

 are the fewer sportsmen, and, consequently, there is 

 to be had the best diversion, we have often to depend 

 a little on our wits for procuring the necessaries of 

 life. If even a nobleman (who is, of course, by 



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