XVIII. 



A SCIENTIFIC SPORTSMAN. 



The air of sublime superiority with which Tewters was 

 accustomed to make a donkey of himself on frequent 

 occasions amply justifies his inclusion in these sketches ; 

 for though it is to be hoped that very few men are quite 

 so silly as he was, and probably is, if one had the misfor- 

 tune to know where to find him at the present moment, 

 there are a great many young gentlemen who believe 

 that they know all about it, when, as a matter of fact, 

 their belief is in a precisely inverse ratio to the truth. 



There was icrede Tewters) nothing that he could not 

 do : and he did nothing. He came to Fallowfield to 

 stay with an aged female relative, and attracted the 

 attention of the residents by strutting about the town 

 with an air of tolerant but slightly contemptuous criti- 

 cism, as he gazed about him ; and when calling one 

 afternoon on Downing, we found our then unknown 

 friend in the billiard- room, dilating learnedly on angles 

 of incidence and reflection, and explaining how the 

 game really ought to be played. We soon discovered 

 that explaining was his strong point. He had a decided 

 opinion on everything, and was always ready, if not to 



