THE 



SPORTING WORLD 



CHAPTER I. 



Liberality and reason must admit there are 

 many persons in the world that we must neither 

 censure or blame for thinking ill of the Sporting 

 World, neither must we be surprised at their so 

 doing. Persons of the lower class, all but uni- 

 versally do this. I allude to London people, to 

 tradesmen, and their families, and others ranking 

 in the same orders of society. They know liter- 

 ally nothing of sportsmen, their pursuits or 

 habits ; never having had the opportunity of seeing 

 either, still less have they had a chance of 



