ANOTHER DAY AT OHEE-HA. 



TJIE sportsman, who gives a true description of 

 his sports, must ~be an egotist. It is his necessity. 

 The things which he has seen or done are precisely 

 those which make the liveliest impression ; and with 

 none other, but such as are thus brightly enshrined 

 in his memory, should he attempt the difficult task 

 of interesting the careless or preoccupied. Let this 

 be my apology for speaking of myself; and if in 

 my narrations there is (as some friendly critic may 

 suggest) a want of repose, it is as well for me 

 candidly to confess that the want is intentional. I 

 sin through design and say, as Gilfert said, when 

 notified of a drop stitch in the flesh-colored unmen- 

 tionables of a celebrated danseuse pirouetting at 

 the Bowery : " Hush, my friend, dat is for effect" 

 Could I rouse you an elephant, gentlemen critics, 

 you should have a grave and stately march ; I'd 

 give you repose with a vengeance. But, for your 

 lighter game, dash splash on, with whip and spur ! 

 Celerity of movement is the play whether in the 

 field or in the narrative ! 



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