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THE SPORTING WORLD. 



vanity enough to say to herself ''we will see." 

 Perhaps this digression may to some persons 

 appear singular if not out of place, but I make 

 it, to convince a certain clique that their 

 animadversions against Sporting and Sportsmen 

 only recoil on themselves as indicative of low 

 life, or at all events the reverse of high life. 



Doubtless, a woman living on, say three 

 hundred a year, in a thirty pound rented house 

 in Walworth, or one living in lodgings in Tavistock 

 Street, Covent Garden, would exclaim loudly against 

 any wonian of fashion and fortune, if she heard 

 the latter was a good judge of a horse ; doubtless 

 she would consider her being so as unfeminine, and 

 a kind of knowledge disgraceful for a lady to 

 possess. Let us see into this, now in saying the 



Marchioness of , is a good judge of horses, 



no one in his or her senses could suppose for 

 a moment a woman of fashion feeling a horse's 

 legs to ascertain his soundness; probably she does 

 not know the name of a curb, or if she has 



