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arcana of Field Sports, would teach him to take 

 four horses in hand with as much ease and 

 little fuss as one pony in a basket park chair. 

 I would have him a first-rate shot ; this I must 

 depute some other person to make him, not 

 being by any means one myself, though probably 

 Swallows would say I was. I could in no way 

 object to his being an angler, though I cannot 

 suppose a boy brought up by me would desire 

 to become one. 



Of the various other sporting propensities in 

 which I might be able to give him as good 

 instructions as most men, I would say nothing, 

 lest I inculcated in him a zest for what I 

 freely confess the mixing in never did me any 

 good, involved considerable expense, and all for 

 what? Why, for becoming a judge of things 

 and pursuits, that would have been far more 

 "honoured in the breach than the performance 

 of." I should however, glory in seeing him in 

 all fair sportsman-hke pursuits, show that the desire 



