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a living heart to sorrow at one's loss. Yet let 

 them think as they will, such will ever be the 

 end of the man who lives ^ for himself ; one 

 cannot but regret that at his death he will not 

 be able to see, or feel, that many rejoice, but 

 not one sigh is called forth. 



There may be, and probably are, those who 

 living for themselves care little or nothing what 

 society may say or think of them after they 

 are gone; — if there be such the sooner they go 

 the better, and are not left "encumbering the 

 earth " they will not " fertilise." 



We now come to a class of the Sporting 

 World that I have mentioned as mere sporting 

 characters. I hope that, if in this volume I 

 have eulogised those sportsmen whose habits and 

 pursuits I look upon as beneficial to society, it 

 will be found 1 shall not be too lenient towards 

 those whose habits have a different tendency. Be 

 it, however, borne in mind that there is no 

 amusement or pursuit in life that has not among 



