THE SPORTING WORLD. 39 



away by me on a horse of a hundred and fifty 

 guinea stamp, I might make a quotation in a 

 different sense to that in which it passes current 

 and say, " Sic transit gloria mundi," and sighing 

 say to myself, that is the w^ay a man should 

 be carried if he hunts at all. 



But it is time to allude to the attributes of 

 the different characters I have specified as 

 legitimate sportsmen, and sporting characters, and 

 see how they estimate themselves, and (what is 

 of far more consequence) how they are estimated 

 by others. 



First in importance comes the Master of 

 Foxhounds, it would not read technical to say 

 owner, though we apply the latter term to any 

 one keeping racehorses. It is however the owner 

 and consequently master of foxhounds we par- 

 ticularise here. I can hardly conceive a man in 

 a more enviable situation. His fortune must of 

 course be large to enable him to hold the 

 position he does in making, we will say, eighteen 



