THE TURF. 
countrymen. This is no trivial feature in the case, now 
that shooting is divided between the lordly battue and 
the prowl of the poacher, and that fox-hunting is 
every day becoming more and more a piece of exclusive 
luxury, instead of furnishing the lord, the squire, and 
the yeoman, with a common recreation, and promoting 
mutual goodwill among all the inhabitants of the rural 
district. 
