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family men, and I believe it will be allowed 

 are to the full as domesticated and attached to 

 their families as are the denizens of Rood Lane, 

 Fenchurch Street, or the Poultry. I mention 

 such persons as it is chiefly from them their 

 families, and connections, the objections emanate 

 against the Sportsman, of whom or of whose 

 conduct they can know nothing. 



As a matter of course the Sportsman does 

 not apply his time to the making of starch, or 

 the manufacturing of saltpetre, his position for- 

 bids it, and his income rende-s it unnecessary. 

 He may (it may be said in the usual cant of 

 certain persons) do nothing for the benefit of 

 his family. His family are benefitted already 

 by the position they hold, and by the fortune 

 he was heir to. He does not certainly pay a 

 couple of hundred pounds to apprentice his son 

 to a builder, but he pays a far larger sum for 

 his commission in the army ; exerts his interest 

 to procure him a situation under Government, 



