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make atonement for his mistake, and when others will 

 appear groggy, he will not be said to have been over- 

 taken, 



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EuRIP. APUD StOBCEUM. 



I am not over fond of qnoting " crack-jaw " upon sport- 

 ing subjects, but cannot resist the introduction of this 

 passage as another proof that in ancient, as well as in 

 modern theory, my doctrine with regard to blood held 

 good. It is a common saying with a friend of mine, an 

 octogenarian divine, one of the most highly polished, 

 and, consequently, one of the most agreeable gentlemen 

 to be met with in the hunting field or elsewhere, when he 

 has occasion to animadvert upon misconduct in any one 

 holding the rank and station of a gentleman, " Rely 

 upon it that fellow never had a grandfather'." There is a 

 fund of truth and meaning in these few words; for 

 although it has but too frequently happened that some 

 scions of the aristocracy have proved degenerate (as if 

 determined to maintain the existence of black sheep in 

 every flock), it will be found in ninety-nine cases out of 

 a hundred, where the harmony of any society is dis- 

 turbed by an obnoxious individual, that he is a cock- 

 tail ; a low, underbred fellow ; one, in short, who never 

 could have had a grandfather. Thus it is with horses, 

 the better bred, the more manageable are they gene- 



