CHRISTOPHER 

 IN HIS SPORTING JACKET 



There is a fine and beautiful alliance between all pas- 

 times pursued on flood, field, and fell. The principles 

 in human nature on which they depend, are in all the 

 same; but those principles are subject to infinite modi- 

 fications and varieties, according to the difference of 

 individual and national character. All such pastimes, 

 whether followed merely as pastimes, or as professions, 

 or as the immediate means of sustaining life, require 

 sense, sagacity, and knowledge of nature and nature's 

 laws; nor less, patience, perseverance, courage even, 

 and bodily strength or activity, while the spirit which 

 animates and supports them is a spirit of anxiety, 

 doubt, fear, hope, joy, exultation, and triumph — in 



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