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attributed to error of judgment only, but in no case 

 to a wish to offend any class of society collectively. 



Some gentlemen-jocks may feel offended at what I 

 may say of them : let me remind them that I speak 

 collectively : nay, could bring individually some in- 

 stances in refutation of my general classing of them. 

 This, however, does not in any way invalidate the 

 correctness of my definition en masse. 



From the gentlemen's gentlemen I expect no suf- 

 frage : I neither expect nor ask it at their hands. If 

 I asked any thing from them, it would be merely that 

 they should feel satisfied that to the best of my ability 

 and judgment I would do them justice ; but this I do 

 not anticipate : for though in the play of John Bull 

 we are told that "justice is justice," it is only enlight- 

 ened minds that will allow it is so when levelled at 

 self. 



One of the terms used in the heading of this article 

 bears at once the stamp of sporting origin namely, 

 gentlemen-jocks : that of gentlemen comes before us 

 in a more questionable shape : whereas the gentle- 

 man's gentleman is (or rather ought to be) a kind of 

 monstrosity that requires explanation. But in allu- 

 sion to gentlemen as a topic for a sporting work, 

 when we reflect that among the thousands that read 

 such works the majority is composed of gentlemen, and 

 that they are the chief supporters of sporting in its 

 various branches, it must be admitted that whatever 

 bears relation to them is quite in place here : so, to 

 carry on the chain of connection, those who make 

 sporting their chief pursuit must keep animals to 

 enable them to enjoy it : and as they must also keep 

 persons to take care of these animals, those persons 

 become objects of consideration also : but, as in duty 



