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such pursuits to me in terms of great reprehension, 

 as being cruel and unjustifiable. I fear, though I 

 have so far participated in such events as to have 

 ridden in them, I must not deny that they do often lead 

 to much, and very severe, cruelty and punishment 

 to animals, whose powers would be better employed 

 in more justifiable pursuits ; be this as it may, 

 coarse must be the mind of him, however keen a 

 sportsman he might be, if he hesitated one moment 

 in deciding which of two females would be the most 

 to be admired — her who might express her admiration 

 of such sport, or the one who awarded to it her un- 

 qualified detestation. Tenderness of feeling, is in 

 woman (as itissaid charity is in man) "twice blessed,"' 

 it is, more than beauty, the sure passport to man's 

 heart ; although quite aware of this, it must not ac- 

 tuate me, or my judgment, in giving a fair and impar- 

 tial opinion as to in what cases animals really suffer 

 They do often suffer most severely, I admit, in steeple 

 chases ; but this does not amount to the fact that 

 such sport is always, and in all cases, a cruel one ; 

 there is no earthly reason that it should be, and 



