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blooded animals." But our readers will not ex- 

 pect us to enter into this subject, since the fact of 

 their being readers is a negative proof of their 

 having previously formed opinions at variance 

 with the maudlin and distorted notions of those 

 who deem every amusement as sinful, of which 

 their morbid taste, or, it may be, their mental or 

 physical incapacity, deprives them the enjoyment ; 

 of those who, as Butler says in Hudibras 



11 Compound for sins they are inclined to 

 By damning those they have no mind to," 



