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is more gratifying to a good sportsman than 

 to give pleasure to the fair sex. I have 

 known it the means of saving many a fox 

 from being trapped ; for instance, a known 

 vulpicidal character, who had three or four 

 daughters that were " come out," and Mama, 

 wishing to introduce them at the hunt 

 ball, aware of the awkwardness of the case, 

 begins the attack at breakfast, — " Sure, Mr. 



B , its very hard our poor girls cannot 



go to the hunt-ball because of your nasty 

 pheasants ! You can't refuse them, when I 

 inform you that the eldest son of Sir G. 



R , Bart. M. P. is to be there ; and you 



Tcnow he has lately paid some attention to 

 our dear daughter Charlotte !" Miss also 

 says, " Papa cannot be so unkind as to pre- 

 vent his Charlotte from going to the only 

 ball this winter." Then Sophia, the second 

 daughter has at him, — " My own dear 

 Papa always said he was delighted when 

 he saw his children happy ; pray, pray, my 



