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Let sportsmen be a little less selfish in their 

 pursuits, and regardless of the like propensities 

 in others ; and game preservers cease to come 

 into painful collision with their tenantry, by 

 adopting a fair system of compensation for 

 injury done to their crops; and the mouths of 

 agitators, now so rampant, would be soon 

 stripped of their sting, and sink into silence. 



Too many, I fear, in their estimate of the 

 lower classes are wont to confound the genus 

 "rough" with the rest. But in reality they 

 are as wide asunder as the North and South 

 Poles. Fortunately for us, the former, numeri- 

 cally speaking, are insignificant enough ; though 

 they fully make up for their deficiency in this 

 respect, by the rudeness of their demeanour, 

 and roughness of their tongues. Let anything 

 like a prize-fight (a rare exhibition, I rejoice 

 to say, now) take place, and the rough will 

 expend his last penny to be present at it. Or 

 cast your eyes upon the crowds that gather 

 occasionally in Hyde-park and Trafalgar-square, 



