A TALE FOR THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. BY CHARLES FRANCIS TROWER. "It seemeth, that this word (hotchpot) is in English a pudding; Hutspot is an old Saxon word, and signifieth so much as Little BODLE LONDON: LONGMAN, BROWN, GREEN, AND LONGMANS. M DCCC LII. 249. u. 206. PREFACE. DEAR READER, LTHOUGH I would not write a mere higher ends than marrying and giv ing in marriage-nor a Sporting-tale alone, (though I love Stoddart, and Knox, and St. John), since we have nobler parts to play, than to be always killing birds, and beasts, and fishes;-nor of grave Politics alone, for then light readers, who are nine-tenths of all, would never care to read me-yet would I fain discourse, in part, of each, if I might thereby gain all to the moral of my Tale. Therefore have I wove a web of Love, seeking to enlist loving hearts. Therefore have I wove a web of Sports, trying to catch keen |