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mutuality in our affections. May we never envy those who are happy, but strive to imitate them. May we derive amusement from business and improvement from pleasure. May our faults be written on the sea-shore, and every good action prove a wave to wash them out. May virtue find fortune always an attendant. May we never repine at our condition, nor be depressed by poverty. May reality strengthen the joys of imagination. May we never make a sword of our tongue to wound a good man's reputation. May our distinguishing mark be merit rather than money. A total abolition of the slave trade. A heart to glow for others' good. A heart to feel and a heart to give. A period to the sorrows of an ingenuous mind. A health to our sweethearts, our friends, and our wives: May fortune smile on them the rest of their lives. May genius and merit never want a friend. Adam's ale: and may so pure an element be always at hand. All that gives us pleasure. All our wants and wishes. All our absent friends on land and sea. An honest guide and a good pilot. As we bind so may we find. As we travel through life may we live well on the road. May truth and liberty prevail throughout the world. May we never engage in a bad cause, and never fly from a good one. May domestic slavery be abolished throughout the world. May the fruits of England's soil never be denied to her children. * * * * * SPORTING. May the lovers of the chase never want the comforts of life. May every fox-hunter be well mounted. May we always enjoy the pleasures of shootings and succeed with foul and fair. The staunch hound that never spends tongue but where he ought. The gallant huntsman that plunges into the deep in pursuit of his game. The clear-sighted sportsman that sees his game with one eye. The steady sportsman that always brings down his game. The beagle that runs by nose and not by sight. The jolly sportsman that never beats about the bush. The huntsman's pleasures--the field in the morning and the bottle at night. The joys of angling. The jolly sportsman who enters the covert without being bit by the fox. May the pleasures of sportsmen never know an en
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