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bring those less fortunately circumstanced to a 

 fixture. This not proceeding from any ill- 

 natured feeling towards others, to whom he has 

 no earthly ill will, but to show off himself, 

 towards whom all his complacent ideas are con- 

 centrated. He would wish all out to be as much 

 amused and gratified as himself, but that they 

 should vie with him in horses or horsemanship, 

 is not to be borne, unless with some of the 

 elite, some known crack riders ; these he 

 tolerates truly because he cannot help it. 



Such a man as we represent the first to be, 

 as a master of hounds, is respected and admired 

 in the field as a sportsman, in the drawing- 

 room as a gentleman, and both loved and 

 respected in his neighbourhood as a kind land- 

 lord, and, where occasion presents itself, as a 

 liberal benefactor. The young one is quite con- 

 tent so that he is admired, which he may be 

 (or not) in the field and drawing room ; one 

 thing is quite certain he cannot conceive the 



