THE SPORTING WORLD. 3 



shop or other avocations, occasionally taking her 

 to the play when they can get orders. Going 

 to dine at Richmond or some such place on a 

 Sunday with friends of the same class, and some- 

 times inviting or going to the houses of similar 

 persons, all thinking precisely like themselves. 

 Such persons seldom read, if they do they judge of 

 the Sportsman hy such books as "Peregrine Pickle," 

 which probably they read in early life, they only 

 see what many Sportsmen were in days long 

 gone by, or are guided by opinions formed and 

 handed down by their parents and religiously 

 fostered by themselves. It will be found that 

 their erroneous opinions are constantly kept alive 

 by their female friends indulging in remarks not 

 very far from the following. 



"God defend me from a Sportsman for my 



"Husband. I am truly thankful Mr. 



"has no taste that way, if he had, a pretty life 

 " I and the family should have of it, there would 

 "be getting up at God knows what hour, by 



