THE SPORTING WORLD. 49 



events act selfishly. The very young and the 

 very old. But they thus act from the influence 

 of different causes. In the young man it proceeds 

 (let us hope) mostly from want of thought, 

 added to which is his love of pleasure and dis- 

 play, both which in the young are perfectly 

 insatiate. It matters not whether his income is 

 three himdred, three thousand, thirty, or twice 

 that sum, so long as a wish is ungratified or 

 fancy unachieved; or so long as one mortal can 

 boast the possession of what the other has not, 

 or make a display the other has not done ; the 

 mines of Golconda would not suffice to gratify 

 his love of pleasure and show ; I cannot use a 

 stronger term than I have in saying that love 

 of pleasure is insatiate. I do not mean to infer 

 that he is insensible to the wants or feelings of 

 others, or that so far as their wants went he 

 would be niggard in relieving them ; doubtless 

 this he occasionally does, and that with, in many 

 cases, uncalled for munificence, but he would not 



