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are not going to marry her, if she happens to 

 be a pretty woman, her smiles may, for the 

 time being ^ amply repay us for a Uttle treachery 

 to our clique, if we pretend to yield to her 

 opinions, as she may in such case admit that 

 ALL Sportsmen are not the savages she held 

 them ; if we thus gain her smiles, for the time 

 being i it would be all we wish. 



I am quite wiUing to give women credit for 

 not usually interfering with men's amusements or 

 pursuits, if proper ones and taken in moderation, 

 but however moderate may be a man's horse 

 pursuits, very many women loudly protest against 

 them ; there seems an actual jealousy of the animals. 

 Now the jealousy is this, the lady would be 

 the last to pay herself so bad a compliment as to 

 suppose her husband could rank horses and dogs 

 with herself ; no, the jealousy is not this, it 

 is, that sporting animals in no way contribute 

 to her individual amusement, and she thinks he 

 has no right to spend any portion of his 



