150 THE SPORTING WORLD. 



would still be a wide difference, quite sufficient 

 to prevent the approach of anything like the 

 so much dreaded symptom of equality, between 

 the landowner and tenant, inasmuch as was the 

 farmer permitted to shoot my lord would re- 

 serve to himself the right to sport over his 

 tenant's grounds, whereas a game certificate would 

 not give the other the shadow of a right to 

 put a foot on his landlord's. 



No man can be expected to feel an interest 

 in matters in which he has no interest himself; 

 gratitude, if it has been called forth, or a sense 

 of the duty he owes to society, will deter a 

 commonly honest-minded man from committing 

 an act prejudicial to another and it will further 

 induce him to prevent others doing it. A man 

 would if he could prevent a gang of burglars 

 entering a house and robbing it ; he is not 

 jealous or envious of the superior possessions of 

 another, nor does he expect that other to give 

 up a part of those possessions to him. He will 



