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acquisitions to your eating in comfort, will be found, 

 I trust, some of the most useful ; and I therefore 

 need add no more, as I neither profess, nor wish, to 

 gratify the palate of an epicure ; but have merely 

 attempted to show, how one man could make him- 

 self comfortable, where another would starve, by the 

 foregoing hints to young caterers and young sports- 

 men. 



Having now said enough as to taking care of, and 

 providing for, my young readers, we will suppose 

 one of them to have arrived at the miserable hole 

 alluded to, and that the first salutation, after the 

 knock at his bed-chamber door, in the morning, is, 

 " A wet day, sir /" and, instead of being able to 

 pursue his sport, either after breakfast, or at noon 

 (the most usual time for the weather to clear np, if 

 it clears up at all), he is consigned a close prisoner 

 to the pothouse; looking alternately to the wind- 

 ward clouds, and the plastered walls of the room ; 

 hearing, through a thin partition, the discordant 

 merriment of drunken fellows ; and inhaling the 

 breezes of a smoky wood fire, with the fumes of their 

 shag tobacco ! In such a predicament, then, how can 

 I prescribe for him? and in this predicament, I 

 believe, there are very few sportsmen that have not 

 often been. Why here again, then, I will endeavour 

 to give him a little advice, though I hope he will not 

 think I am beginning to write a sermon. I shall 

 now first observe, that, of all things on earth, to 

 make a man low spirited, unhappy, or nervous, is 



