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who hunt only because they think it the correct 

 thing to do, or for the sole purpose of wearing a 

 scarlet coat, and who are in a state of fancying them- 

 selves, and admiring their boots en inofih all day 

 long, until they get a fall — when they don't. But 

 these men, fortunately, are in the minority, and the 

 novice will find that, in spite of the sneers of a 

 section of fox-hunters, there are many good sports- 

 men who do not think it beneath their dignity to 

 gallop after the carted deer. 



