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" such a one rode, or speaking of some one who 

 **got a fall, at which any one with proper 

 ** feeling would shudder to hear of, they laugh at 

 "it, and speak of it as a "purler," or some 

 " such detestable low term ; this they carry on 

 "all the evening, instead of making up a nice 

 "little rubber, which could easily be done, for 

 **if none of the family could make up a fourth, 

 "his wife could easily get in some friend, who 

 "would be but too happy to come in and spend 

 " a cheerful evening. Faugh, Sportsmen, God 

 "defend me from a Sportsman." 



This is very much like the representations 

 made, and believed to be correct among the class of 

 London women we have particularised. The young 

 Miss of the same coterie indulges in similar 

 ideas, which she has no incentive to correct, 

 seeing that all the "nice young men" with whom 

 she is acquainted, know nothing about Sporting, 

 or Sportsmen ; unless some one among them, 

 thinking to " do it stylish," talks, as they think. 



