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opportunity, or the chance given him of getting 

 among gentlemen to carry it out, and mixing 

 with low Sporting characters would be the high 

 road to ruin. His father's till or cash box pro- 

 bably paying turnpikes and expenses in his 

 inehgible route. All must quite coincide with such 

 youngster's father in holding him far better 

 employed in the counting-house or shop. 



Thus, with all my Sporting predilections on 

 my head, I am not unjust enough to feel my 

 ire raised when I hear certain men reprobate 

 them. ' I hold it hard enough that fate has 

 placed them in positions with which Sporting is 

 incompatable. It would be hard to deny them 

 the gratifications (if gratification they find it,) to 

 bless their stars they are not Sportsmen. 



It will be observed that I have made the 

 foregoing observations only on persons whose 

 finances and occupations are such, and the time 

 they are obliged daily to apply themselves to 

 business, such as to preclude the possibility of 



