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plodding his heavy way through muddy lanes, would 

 form a more appropriate illustration to that cardinal 

 virtue. 



Strikes seem all the fashion of the day ; but it 

 strikes us that tailors have little cause to complain 

 of hard usage and low wages, as it appears from 

 statements in the papers that about two guineas per 

 week has been their usual pay, which is higher than 

 that received by the generality of huntsmen and 

 whippers-in throughout the provinces, and whose 

 time for work is not limited to twelve hours a day. 

 It is true that, during the vacation — commencing 

 w^ith the close of the hunting season, and extending 

 to the first day of cubhunting — huntsmen and whips 

 have no severe work to undergo ; and, fortunately, 

 it happens so to them, as well as to the horses and 

 hounds, that the bow is not always bent, that there 

 is some time for relaxation and recreation In some 

 countries, however, the respite is very short — where 

 they kill their May fox^ and begin cubhunting in 

 July. 



Foxhunting is a very agreeable and exhilarating 

 amusement to those who can go out only when they 

 like and go home when they like ; and, although 

 there are many gentlemen who would hunt every day 

 in the week if they could, we doubt not that profes- 

 sionals would prefer four days to six, if permitted to 

 express their candid sentiments upon this point. 



Irregular habits of living are denounced by 

 physicians as very detrimental to health ; and what 

 class of servants lives more irregularly than those 

 who contribute so much to our amusement in the 



