THE SPORTING WORLD. 



getting even a glimpse of their society. The 

 most they can know of the Sporting World — 

 and this amounts to knowing nothing — is from the 

 description given by some apprentice, or peradven- 

 ture by their own son occasionally breaking loose 

 and visiting some place of low resort by Sporting 

 Characters ; of such, if he dare speak, he can 

 only report scenes and persons by which his 

 hearers judge, erroneously of course, of the 

 pursuits and habits of the Sporting World ; for it 

 never, enters their heads that a sportsman would 

 no more habitually visit such places, than he 

 would accept from themselves an invitation to 

 dinner. 



I think I may say, I never heard a woman 

 of such class, or some ranking far higher, who, 

 if a London bred one, could bear the name of a 

 Sportsman ; for both are alike ignorant of what 

 he really is. The sole idea of a woman of the 

 class alluded to, of what the pursuits of a man 

 ought to be, is his attending ail day to his 



