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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 unne- 

 cessarily hard fare, when quartered in a small public- 

 house, on some shooting or fishing excursion. As many 

 of the little publicans live chiefly on fat pork and tea ; 

 or, if on the coast, red herrings ; the experienced tra- 

 veller 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, con- 

 sequently, 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 common people, thought in the greatest ex- 

 treme better than a gentleman without a title) were to 

 enter an alehouse, the most that could be procured for 

 him would be mutton or beef, both perhaps as tough, 

 and with as little fat, as the boots or gaiters on his legs. 



