120 THE SPORTING WORLD. 



or pays a liberal sum to qualify him to fill one 

 of the learned professions. He keeps his daugh- 

 ters at home making them (if you please to use 

 the term very rife in some quarters) " fine ladies," 

 (but to eschew such term), by making them 

 elegant women, and affording them the necessary 

 education and accomplishments, he qualifies them 

 (with what fortune he may be able to give them) 

 to marry in their own sphere, and thus carry on 

 the line of aristocracy (or if his position is not so 

 high), the gentry of the country. 



It will be found the conduct of the Sports- 

 man is in this particular somewhat the same 

 from the noble to the farmer, he either makes 

 his son a farmer or places him with the brewer, 

 maltster, or sometimes attorney or surgeon in 

 the neighbouring town, but in most cases it 

 would go " against the grain " with the honest 

 farmer to see him what he would probably 

 designate "a counter skipper." 



His daughters, probably, like those of his 



