Yet, when they have separated,
they never fail to hold one another up to ridicule and contempt.
The Spurious Sportsman thus spends the greater part of his life in
building up a reputation out of nothing. As time goes on, he becomes
more and more anecdotically experienced, and, if possible, even less
actual. He will have lost his nerve for riding, and a sight which
gets daily weaker will have caused him to abandon even the pretence of
handling his gun; but he will seek a recompense by becoming a sporting
authority, and will pass a doddering old age in lamenting over
the decay of all those qualities which formerly made a sportsman a
sportsman, and a man a man.
* * * * *
MR. PUNCH'S DICTIONARY OF PHRASES.
PARLIAMENTARY.
"_My right honourable and learned friend;_" i.e., "A professional
politician, devoid alike of principle and capacity."
"_I pass from that matter;_" i.e., "Find it somewhat embarrassing."
"_I don't know where my honourable friend gets his facts from;_" i.e.,
"He should try and get out of his inveterate habit of lying.
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