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the pride of ftriding the befl Nag, and 

 ihewing fomewhat of the bold Horfeman, 

 and (equal to any thing) of being firft in at 

 the death, after a chace frequently from 

 county to county, and perhaps above half the 

 way out of fight or hearing of the Hounds. 

 So that, but for the name of Fox-hunting, 

 a man might as well mount at his ftable- 

 dtDor, and determine to gallop twenty miles 

 an end into another county. I do not doubt 

 but at the conclufion of fuch an imaginary 

 chace, if he came to his inn fafe, he would 

 enjoy all that firft and chief fatisfadion fe- 

 veral Gentlemen do in their hearts after a 

 Fox chace, from the happinefs of having 

 cleared many double ditches, five-bar gates, 

 and dangerous floughs, without the misfor- 

 tune of one broken rib, notwithftanding 

 two or three confounded falls in taking fly- 

 ing leaps. 



After a Hare thefe accidents are not ufu- 

 ally met with -, the diveriion is of another 

 fort. When Pufs is ftarted, fhe feldom fails 

 to run a ring ; the firft is generally the worfl 

 (for horfe or foot) that may happen in the 



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