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hardships and fatigue requisite to be endured by the foxhunter, the 

 grouse-shooter, the deer-stalker, and the fisherman ; while polo, football, 

 golf, and cricket demand exertion which brings every muscle into 

 active requisition. And powerful brain faculty with quick decision of 

 purpose are essentially requisite to the all-round sportsman. In 

 addition to which our sports are all more or less fraught with danger. 

 It is that danger which makes them so attractive to our countrymen. 

 It is the constant engagement in these pursuits from earliest boyhood, 

 inuring them to rough usage and hard knocks, that makes our country- 

 men the greatest men in the world. 



A man afflicted by nature with a delicate constitution, which at 

 times produces eflfeminacy, is greatly to be pitied; but a fellow who 

 through indolence or other fault becomes effeminate is a horrible sight, 

 worse even than a masculine woman — a fellow whose only object in 

 life is to dress and to dance, eat, drink, and talk scandal. To see him 

 going along with elbows squared over knocked and tottering knees, 

 taking hold of things as if they were going to burn him, equals 

 in abomination having to listen to him delivering himself, in 

 drawl or penny-whistle squeal, of his meaningless and egotistical 

 form of speech. These pusillanimous creatures, through want of 

 exercise, are .usually shapen with narrow shoulders, contracted 

 chests, with arms and legs devoid of muscle, These deformities? 

 though apparent to everyone else, they themselves never discern 

 owing to the self-conceit inherent in them ; nevertheless, feeling the 

 necessity, they have to put in splints their wasp-Jike bodits by means 

 of a woman's stays, while to give some sort of freshness to their peeled- 

 garlic face they rouge it and dye their eyebrows ! Ota truth these 

 " greenery-yallery, Grosvenor-Gallery, foot-in-the-grave young men," all 

 collar and cuffs, bedecked in jewellery, with idiotic expression and 

 lack-lustre eyes, are the most despicable specimens of humanity. 



Happy and thankful should be the man who is endowed with manly 

 attributes ! See him strutting along with hat cocked and coat cut 

 betokening his readiness and ability to tackle anyone or anything, and 

 nothing to adorn him but that negligence which is the elegance of the 

 sportsman. The conversation of that man is often a treat to listen to, 

 delivered as it is in manly tone, and able as he usually is to converse 

 upon all topics. A man constituted with the true instincts of a sports- 

 man is seldom a bad man, while in him are always found traits of 

 character of the highest order. That is the sort of fellow— with ruddy 

 face, twinkling eye, and jovial manner — women admire most and lavish 

 their love upon, while they despise and ridicule the shivery-shakys. 



Apart from other considerations what a fund is sport for enlivening 

 the mind and creating in it a healthy state. After a day's toil or 

 worry of one sort or another, when discussing sport or manly 

 games around the festive board all troubles disappear, and no room 

 is left for subjects unclean or topics which should not be broached. 

 Let, therefore, sportsmen look the matter straight in the face and 



