22 THE SPORTING WORLD. 



from mixing with the aristocracy, perhaps sets a 

 bright example it will be well for her equals 

 to follow, and for her superiors to imitate. 



The very learned may hold Field Sports as 

 somewhat trifling pursuits when compared with 

 their profounder studies ; but the same good sense 

 that enables them to dive into the occult 

 mysteries of science, will tell them that an equal 

 portion of sound sense may exist in the head 

 of the country gentlemen, as in his who devotes 

 his time and energies to the abstruse study of 

 ethereal contemplation, or the mysteries of natural 

 causes and effects. 



