2 OBSERVATIONS ON FOX-HUNTING 



souvenir for the okl-^however little the following 

 effort may interest the mere pedant, I rest satisfied 

 in the assurance of my friends, that / am advo- 

 cating a manly national amusement, conducive to 

 health, and in unison with gentlemanly feeling. 

 Hence, if this humble attempt shall in any way 

 tend either to the initiation, the improvement, or 

 even the amusement of a young Sportsman, the 

 end I had in view will have been fully answered, 

 while the time it has cost me from my leisure 

 hours will lia\e neither been thrown away nor 

 misapplied. 



Having ventured to say thus much as to the 

 object of this little Publication, I shall conclude 

 my brief Introduction by disclaiming every wish 

 to appear cither too sullenly insensible to the voice 

 of censure, or to the smiles of approbation too 

 feelingly alive. I wish not for the praises of a 

 literary chronicle : let the critic lavish his en- 

 comivuiis on the more lengthened and maturer 

 labours of the mathematician, the logician, the 

 poet, and the philosopher ; thus reserving his 

 patience and his praise for works of graver interest 

 and weightier materials, to which, so oft and so 

 judiciously, 



" Poetic fi'iciids prefix each kind address, 



While awe-struck nations hail them from the press." 



