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one crop is as another, and hounds merely objects 

 to ride atl When you consider these things, and 

 also his keen anxiety to provide you with sport, I 

 am convinced that you, and each one of us who have 

 the interests of fox hunting at heart, will endeavour 

 to let no action of ours make the arduous task a 

 more difficult one than it necessarily must be. 



By acting upon the advice I have given you, I 

 venture to think you will not only set an example 

 worthy of imitation, but personally do much to en- 

 sure the prosperity of your hunt, as well as towards 

 promoting the good sport it may be destined to 

 afford its followers. 



TWICE SOLD. 



OM SCORER was a smart fellow, a good 

 judge of ahorse, fine resolute rider, always 

 open to deal, and with morals, I must 

 reluctantly add, of the most elastic and accom- 

 miodatmg order. 



It so happened that upon a certain Saturday, not a 

 few seasons ago now, that he completely pounded the 

 whole of the Bankshire Bruisers over a great gaping 

 brook — a brook which he, with as much good fortune 



