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delays are dangerous, and that he has nothing for it 

 but to fly, makes his point for some distant earths, 

 the attainment of which nothing but death will 

 prevent. 



Having said this, it is not to be wondered at, 

 that, besides being encroached upon by other 

 hounds, Leicestershire, though a small county, 

 should contain three packs of fox-hounds, which 

 are attended by the best and hardest riders in 

 England ; to which it may be added, without any 

 reflection upon other establishments, that no other 

 country could find such hounds to ride to. What 

 benefit must they derive from such a country ! 



Nimrod (C. /. Apperley). 



