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exercise, and his head cool by temperance." My only 

 object in writing an article upon, or, rather, of writing 

 a word upon an article of dress, is that of noticing the 

 fact, that inasmuch as the demeanour of the " courtly 

 Chesterfield" — (although he did, after riding " beyond all 

 price," presume to "wonder how men ever hunted 

 twice),"— is that which is far more consistent with the 

 character of a real fox-hunter, than the drinking, 

 swaggering, rough-and-ready picture of the mere vermin 

 killer, so constantly misrepresented as the squire of 

 former days; so, also, is the most correct mode of 

 habiliment, (the total absence of all which, born of bad 

 taste, is, in slang parlance, designated as "swell,"— or 

 "knowing,") — that which, without one studied effort, 

 sits naturally on the outward man,— that which alone 

 accords with the personal appearance of a true votary 

 of this most gentlemanlike, most " Noble Science."— 



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