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hibition, and at such monsters as the instigators and 

 encouragers of it? Yet such scenes do constantly 

 take place, and, what is more, the owner of the win- 

 ner is often cheered and lauded as if he had really 

 performed some meritorious and heroic action ! 



I have personally been accused by ladies of showing 

 a disposition to cruelty, and even barbarity, because 

 I have occasionally gone to see a prize-fight. This 

 they naturally consider as a most horrid exhibition : 

 long may my fair countrywomen continue to think 

 so ! It is the natural result of the tenderness of 

 woman's nature. The dark-eyed daughters of An- 

 dalusia tell you, Quen no ha visto Sevilla no ha visto 

 maravilla : so they say also of a bull fight. Now 

 though few men who have seen such eyes have 

 escaped their influence, however fascinating their 

 truly lovely owners may be, their bare endurance, 

 without their praises of a bull fight, would be a 

 damper to the feelings of an Englishman in selecting 

 them as wives. I therefore glory in the indignant 

 glances called forth from Englishwomen at the bare 

 mention of a fight. That two gluttons after an hour's 

 fighting are by no means pleasing objects to look 

 upon is quite clear ; but I fully maintain that 

 cruelty has nothing on earth to do here, nor can I 

 consider it follows that men who witness it have any 

 cruelty in their disposition. If an unfortunate 

 wretch was condemned to be beaten to death, or 

 nearly so, as a punishment by an executioner, I grant 

 the man must be worse than brutish who could 

 derive any gratification in witnessing so revolting a 

 spectacle : but if two men prefer fighting as a mode 

 of making money to any other, who has a right to 

 interfere in their selection of occupation ? Chacun a 



