GREAT AND LITTLE SPORTSMEN.
OUR fashionable contemporaries have been amusing their readers with the details of how many birds have been bagged by my Lord This, or the Honourable Captain Tother; and, as every class has a peculiar interest attached to it, we have been at some pains to collect the results of the sporting season among a somewhat humble order of individuals. The best accounts assure us that the Dishonourable Bill Soames bagged no less than twenty pocket-handkerchiefs in a few hours, and brought down—off a clothes' line—everything within his reach. In the juvenile sporting circles Master Jones bagged twenty blue-bottles off his own pop-gun, and young Smith had a splendid run after a butterfly with a few young dogs of about his own age.