The Sporting Dictionary and Rural Repository, Volume 2 (of 2): Of General Information upon Every Subject Appertaining to the Sports of the FieldTaplin, William
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The Sporting Dictionary and Rural Repository, Volume 2 (of 2): Of General Information upon Every Subject Appertaining to the Sports of the Field
Taplin, William
Hunting -- Dictionaries; Sports -- Dictionaries
NETS—are the well-known articles constructed of thread, packthread, and
small cord, made of every sort and size, for the various purposes of
taking fish, fowl, and game of every denomination; from the GUDGEON to
the SALMON, from the SPARROW to the WILD DUCK, and from the RABBIT to
the RED DEER: all are destined to bow obedience to human ingenuity. Nets
are to be obtained from the makers, of almost every possible
description, under a variety of names, according to the distinct use for
which each is employed. Of these there are the _minnow-net_, the
_casting-net_, the _landing-net_, the _draw-net_, the _drag-net_, the
_bat-folding-net_, the _tunnel-net_, the _flue-net_, the _clap-net_, the
_fowling-net_, with a long list of inferiors; the insertion of which
here is not likely to prove of the least general utility; each being
practically known to those of the different SPORTING or _poaching_
classes with whom they are principally in use.
NEWMARKET—is the name of a small town, about sixty miles from the
METROPOLIS, and ten from CAMBRIDGE. In itself it lays claim to little
attention, but is rendered of much celebrity by the beautiful country by
which it is surrounded, and the periodical RACING MEETINGS there
established; constituting a kind of carnival to the SPORTING WORLD,
that, to be properly conceived, must be seen; and to be enjoyed, must be
understood. During the whole of each meeting it is a complete MART of
BUSINESS in the midst of _dissipation_, forming a scene of profit and
loss, pleasure and anxiety, exultation and despondency, beyond the power
of the most fertile pen to depict. Nothing, perhaps, can more nearly
equal the general confusion, the various passions, and variegated
countenances, (as agitated by the pecuniary sensations of each,) than
the contortions of disquietude, and gesticulations of mental misery,
upon the EXCHANGE, when some sudden political shock produces a dreadful
and unexpected _fall_ in the price of stocks.
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