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a whole-hearted sympathy to the end that others are 

 striving to attain. 



Our sympathies must always be with the hunters or 

 otherwise the merciful disposition of our natures will 

 assert itself and we shall lose interest in the sport by 

 dweUing on the feelings of the hunted. A fox lives by 

 hunting, and unless I am much mistaken rather enjoys 

 the excitement of trjring to outwit hounds, a game at 

 which he frequently succeeds. 



