THE SPORTING WORLD. 29 



Sportsmen. Let us now see what Sportsmen 

 think of each other, which is a matter of some 

 interest to them, whereas the opinion of persons 

 they are never hkely to mix or converse with 

 must he a matter of no interest at all. 



I have said that imless a boy had the pros- 

 pect of sufficient inheritance to enable him to 

 pursue them, I should hold it to be both to his 

 interest and happiness to know nothing at all about 

 them. Some persons may say — why can he not 

 enjoy them with moderation, for which a 

 moderate income, no matter from what derived, 

 will suffice? My reply to that is, we all know 

 total abstinence is far easier than moderation, 

 and the young one must be a cold-blooded one, 

 if in getting one day in the weeks' fox hunting, 

 he does not wish for three or four, and I should 

 say that " Tare and Tret," " Consols and Long 

 Annuities," or poring over the dry opinions of counsel 

 for a client's benefit, must be doubly irksome after 

 the animating scene of a find in a favourite Fox Cover, 



