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Englishman a real and strongly-rooted love of 

 it for its own sake. AVlien, however, by 

 means of the Rack, thumbscrews, Acts of 

 Parliament, Police-court summonses, and 

 other deadly weapons, the kill-joys of the 

 world have finally succeeded in eliminating 

 all such feelings from our breasts, surely then 

 even the most sanguine and most patriotic 

 amongst us must begin to look anxiously for 

 the advent of the aboriginal gentleman from 

 New Zealand whom Macaulay has forewarned 

 us shall one day indulge in the cheap, though 

 draughty, entertainment of sitting on the 

 ruins of London Bridge. 



But these nineteenth-century Aladdins will 

 have to rub their lamps for a long time before 

 they Ijring about the changes they are striv- 

 ing for, and cause themselves and their fel- 

 low-men to live the sort of Arcadia-and-water 

 existence which they think the only fitting 

 one ; so taking advantage of the interval they 

 are kind enough to allow us, between now 

 and the time of our final annihilation in the 

 world of sport, let us leave the discussion 



