THE SPORTING WORLD, 15 



The husband also knows that Field Sports 

 seldom require the services of an Agent, bring 

 nothing to the Lawyer's office, unless peradventure 

 it be the Sportsman himself, sorely against his 

 will. In themselves Sporting pursuits if prudently 

 followed produce no bill transactions, though 

 "miserabile dictu," when the reverse conduct is 

 pursued they frequently do. A man having some 

 hundreds of acres as hereditary property, creates no 

 items in the Merchant's Ledger. Selling live stock 

 creates none of the advantages to the City 

 "jobber," that speculations in change effect; and 

 lastly, all transactions with tradesmen of a general 

 kind, are only resorted to by the Sportsman as 

 matters of necessity, while he invariably regrets 

 being] compelled to apply to the " counter," the 

 "covert" not furnishing all he wants in the 

 necessaries of life. 



It is equally politic and natural that a parent 

 of such grade should check any sporting propen- 

 sity in his offspring, he would neither have time. 



