48 THE SPORTING WORLD. 



We must not expect such exertions for the 

 benefit of others from very young men, but such 

 are not often placed in a situation to accord it. 

 Few young men though they may on coming of age 

 come into a certain sum, large or small as the 

 case may be, still it does not often happen that a 

 son at that age comes into possession of the family 

 estate and appendages, for probably when the son 

 is twenty-one, the father is but forty -five. Thus 

 we seldom see a young man just come of age a 

 master of foxhounds and called upon to perform 

 the various duties filled by a man of maturer 

 age. It is well for others that it is so, for the 

 various ways in which I have stated a man of 

 weight in point of property may be, and 

 frequently is, of the greatest service in his 

 county, would be unattended to by the younger 

 representative ; I will state my reasons for inferring 

 that they would be so. 



There are two ages in which numbers of 

 mankind are more or less selfish, or at all 



