THE SPORTING WORLD. 139 



Shooting, like many other things, may be 

 done in a very expensive or very economical 

 manner, and possesses this advantage ; it may 

 be done in the latter way in just as Sportsman- 

 like a manner as the former. Now a man 

 cannot hunt a fox with a single couple of 

 hounds, or hare either ; he cannot call it coursing 

 if he only uses one greyhound. But he can 

 shoot as much like a Sportsman with one couple 

 of well broke pointers as if he had more. With 

 a keeper at his elbow and a relay of dogs wait- 

 ing his pleasure, he might be able perhaps to 

 kill more head of game and beat a larger tract 

 of country, but he would not be doing the thing 

 one atom more like a Sportsman than his more 

 humble neighbour, he would only do it more 

 like command of large fortune ; this in a great 

 measure accounts for the numerous patronisers 

 of the trigger from all classes. 



I can conceive few things pleasanter than 

 arriving in your mail phaeton with a friend or 



