32 THE SPORTING WORLD. 



with clogs to protect the lower extremities, and 

 an umbrella to protect the upper ones, could 

 trot oiF a mile-and-a-half to Drury Lane Theatre. 

 But could Garrack, Kemble, Keen, Mrs. Siddons, 

 and Miss O'Neil all play together, I would 

 not endure the mortification of the thus going, 

 for the great treat such an assemblage of talent 

 would be when I got there. But as in the 

 other supposed case, I repeat happier, and per- 

 haps wiser, would be the man who would. 



There are men who can be content to shoot 

 three days a week with a pottering old Pointer; 

 nor is it at all improbable such a Sportsman 

 may bag as much game during the season as 

 he who with his leash of high ranging Setters, 

 or Pointers, with a relay, can boast during the 

 months he devotes to grouse and partridge ; but 

 the first is at best mere altogether pottering, 

 which I loathe in any way. 



Some persons may say "this is all pride and 

 vanity," I admit there is a good deal of both 



