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have his double-barrel), with the means of 

 another pop-pop; and the whole party are 

 ready to set off, and to renew, as far as the 

 nature of the ground may admit of it, a similar 

 exhibition elsewhere. 



I am the more desirous to present this con- 

 trast in full view before the reader, because I 

 do fear that something too nearly related to 

 the latter is, nine times in ten, all that we meet 

 with among our sporting acquaintance; and 

 certainly all we can expect to meet with among 

 a certain class, by far too numerous, who com- 

 pute their consequence in the field by the 

 number of barrels and of dogs which they are 

 enabled to bring into it, without duly weighing 

 their own capacity of giving a due direction to 

 either; and because a meditation on such con- 

 trast is the most probable means of producing 

 the so much wanted reformation of system in 

 those for whose benefit the two sketches are 

 here presented: for while the beauty of the 

 former must be sufficient to inspire a wish of 

 possessing the power of exhibiting such a pic- 

 ture, the defects of the latter can hardly fail to 

 point out the way in which these defects will 

 be most effectually remedied: and it will of 

 necessity suggest itself, that it may be expedient 



