96 THE SPORTING WORLD. 



now state that feeling to be much mitigated in 

 the case of country gentlemen and country 

 traders ; in the country both are known and 

 their acts are ostensible, this is a check on the 

 conduct of each ; there is more confidence, and 

 that confidence is far less often abused in the 

 country than it is in London, where each may 

 do wrong and the wrong pass unobserved in the 

 great vortex of London transactions. The gen- 

 tleman patronises the same tradesman who, in 

 themselves or their predecessors, have probably 

 served the father and grandfather of the squire ; 

 this is a check on the acts of both, and each 

 in his way is respected ; and though I still say 

 the town pack is much less frequently seen by 

 the gentleman than is that of the farmers', it 

 arises from their belonging to different cliques, 

 forming as a pursuit consonant to the ideas 

 and pursuits of gentlemen. 



We will now drop the hunting man, haying 

 alluded to him in (I believe) every situation in 



