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warranty, but we prefer the old term in vogue amongst 

 our forefathers, when financial embarrassments have 

 rendered it necessary for us to descend to keeping a 

 " general " servant. Let us hope that our fox-hunting 

 readers may not have to descend still lower, and be 

 obliged to pad the hoof themselves in order to witness 

 their favourite sport. "Fox-hunting on foot is but 

 labour in vain," says Egerton Warburton. But fox- 

 hunting on foot and fox-hunting on wheels have 

 nothing to do with this volume, which we must now 

 conclude, lest our readers should echo the words of 

 Shakespeare against us: "He draweth out the thread 

 of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument." 



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