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likely the majority of those who might suffer in a 

 pecuniary way are of a class who deserve no pity, let 

 them suffer what they will. If a man was to say 

 to his jockey, " If you can win your race without 

 abusing your horse, do, but I will not have him 

 butchered and cut up for double the stakes ;" such 

 a man would be abused by the whole betting frater- 

 nity ; his conduct would be called unjustifiable, 

 unsportsmanlike, and un gentlemanly. My indi- 

 vidual opinion of such a man matters little, but I 

 hope I am right in my surmise, that such an order 

 would raise him in the opinion of every right- 

 thinking persDn who knew it was so given. 



We will now, for the present, quit the subject of 

 racing of either kind, and take up that of the chase ; 

 I have heard this designated, by persons of anti- 

 sporting habits, as cruel. 



Whoever wishes his reasoning, or opinion, on any 

 subject to produce any attention or effect, should be 

 careful not to let his personal predilections for, or 

 against, such subject influence the opinions he may 

 promulgate upon it, for the moment it is perceived 



