THE SPORTING WORLD. 181 



This is a frightful state of things in the 

 Sporting World I admit, but not one iota 

 more frightful than the many tricks and tempta- 

 tions by which an originally honest man has 

 been tempted or forced into becoming a rogue 

 in other pursuits in life. The great error is 

 the non-sporting part of the commimity will 

 hold Sporting as unnecessary; consequently, any 

 transaction or occurrence leading to a result to 

 be deplored and reprobated is magnified tenfold 

 by such persons. They hold banking necessary, 

 therefore, if a nest of rogues ruin hundreds, 

 they admit such firm to merit public and 

 private execration and punishment, but they do 

 not, therefore, decry banking. If a railroad 

 projector also ruins individuals and families, 

 they look at it as a casualty attending such 

 speculations, content themselves with calling Mr. 



and Messrs. rogues, but the decrying 



railroads as a general pursuit never enters their 

 heads. "Yes," they may say, "but we cannot 



