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the hunter which can carry him well to hounds 

 cheap at $1,750 or $2,000; while the lighter man, 

 of shorter purse, thankfully mounts his 10 or 11 

 stone on a nag of one-sixth the price. The average 

 value of these 108,000 hunters is $400, which 

 can not be considered extravagant, and thus we 

 have a total sum invested in horseflesh of $43,- 

 200,000. These 36,000 hunting men want some- 

 thing in the way of clothing and saddlery, and 

 it is not lavish to ascribe to each the possession 

 of $150 worth of clothes and boots, and of $125 

 of saddlery and stable furniture; but even this 

 modest allowance produces the handsome total of 

 $9,900,000 invested in necessaries. Taking the 

 value of each pack of hounds as $2,500, we get 

 a total of $900,000; granting to each hunt 10 

 horses, at $250, for the servants, we get another 

 $900,000 ; and putting the value of the hunt serv- 

 ants' clothing and saddlery at $305 each hunt, 

 we add to the foregoing items $99,000. Omit- 

 ting the value of stable buildings and kennels, 

 which is difficult to guess, we cast up the figures 

 above given, and we find the gross total $1,000 

 short of $55,000,000. 



As to the size of individual packs, as hunted 

 in England at the present time, the average is 

 probably 10 couples, though the Bel voir has 66 

 couples, and the Duke of Beaufort 75 couples of 

 hounds. As to the value of hounds in England, 

 an idea may be formed when I state that Mr. 



