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arranged in a better method. Although acquired 

 by study, long thought, and strict observation, 

 if they have any value, it is their originality. 

 His hope is, by attempting to make them sharp, 

 short, and decisive, to induce men to read them ; 

 and if they should be the means of promoting 

 the taste for hunting — a sport to which this 

 country is indebted for the superiority of its 

 officers over most other nations, etc., as well as the 

 social feeling which it creates in the country 

 where hounds are kept — he will have gained his 

 point. 



