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do without banking and railroads, and we can 

 without hunting and racing." My answer would 

 be, "Yes, we, that is, you, could do without 

 hunting and racing, but the country could not; 

 at least it would be a serious loss to it if 

 they did not exist." We find people in this 

 world are apt to consider self as of much 

 greater importance than it usually is, and are 

 also disposed to hold that necessary, com- 

 mendable, or the reverse, as it strikes them as 

 being , so ; whereas, we should set self and 

 prejudice aside, and take care to be well-grounded 

 in our subject before we condemn anything as 

 useless because it does not meet our ideas of 

 being needful or beneficial to the community, 

 for we, usually, merely show our own ignorance 

 where we are not so. 



We now come to another sporting character 

 — The Better — This man need not, nor does he, 

 usually know anything about race horses, their 

 particular merits, or peculiar attributes. In the 



