id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt scott-guy-1815 scott scott-guy-1815 1815 .txt text/plain 164989 5868 68 Fielding has described one class as feras consumere nati; but the love of field-sports indicates a certain activity of mind, which had forsaken Mr. Bertram, if ever he possessed it. One of Sampson's great recommendations to the favour of Mr. Bertram was, that he never detected the most gross attempt at imposition, so that the Laird, whose humble efforts at jocularity were chiefly confined to what were then called bites and bams, since denominated hoaxes and quizzes, had the fairest possible subject of wit in the unsuspecting Dominie. cache/scott-guy-1815.txt txt/scott-guy-1815.txt