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whether they may be the pursuit of the sensible 

 or refined man is quite another affair, as is 

 whether they exhibit a good taste or a perverted 

 one, in him who mixes in such. There must 

 be amusement for the low as well as the 

 high ; but I quite repudiate the idea that it is 

 in any way necessary or ought to be tolerated, 

 that there should be such for the disso- 

 lute and depraved ; among such we must place 

 the dog fighter. We have had a few men un- 

 equivocally in point of birth, education, and the 

 society they mixed with, gentlemen who patron- 

 ised this useless and revolting sport. I omit in 

 compliment to the characters to mention their 

 names, we have none who are publicly known 

 as such now. 



Reader, have you ever in Hyde or the Green 

 Park noticed some man with a bladder at the 

 end of a string, and that string fixed to the end 

 of a rod like a fishing one, casting this bladder 

 from side to side, and a dog vainly attempting 



