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the eve of marriage, who is the daughter of the 

 above stated father, conceives that with the 

 plan she has laid out of parties, public places, 

 and entertaining her former friends frequently, 

 and her relations perpetually, for her husband, 

 in addition to such amusements, to entertain any 

 ideas of Field Sports would be as preposterous 

 as it would have been in her father's case. 



Doubtless the young lady is vastly kind in 

 thus liberally appropriating an income in pros- 

 pectu ; but, as the dislike of Field Sport and 

 Sportsmen have grown with her growth, or rather 

 the knowing nothing of either has, so the 

 propensity of following such pursuit has perhaps 

 become fixed with the Husband in prospectu, 

 and he may not hold the gaining her a com- 

 pensation for the foregoing every thing he 

 has been accustomed to consider the primum 

 mobile of all his pleasurable sensations, or at 

 all events chiefly so ; he has honesty enough 

 to tell her this or something like it, and she 



