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same by his gold. What matter whether a man 

 has ten thousand guineas that he counts over, 

 or ten thousand guineas worth of coins that he 

 looks over ; society is not amused by his pursuit, 

 or general society, in any way benefitted; such a 

 man lives unloved, and the news of his death 

 is hailed with pleasure by those expecting to be 

 benefitted by it, by those who think there is a 

 possibility of their being so, by indifference by 

 others, and none regret the cutting short of 

 his useless career. 



Not so the sportsman and foxhunter, he lives 

 for others as well as for himself, and dies regretted 

 by a county ; hundreds have derived their chief 

 amusement from his liberality, hundreds have enjoyed 

 his hospitality ; society has everything to cause their 

 wishing him a long life, and the death of the 

 squire is held a calamity to the neighbourhood. 

 Better, far better, I say, would it be to die like 

 the humble whipper-in, Tom Moody, than sneak 

 out of the world like the miser without leavmg 



