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able : and thus it is witli an establishment qualified 

 properly to hunt any country. The chief must not only 

 be heart and soul in the cause, but he must endeavour 

 to fortify himself with that thorough knowledge of the 

 business, which is essential — I say, indispensable — to 

 complete success. The word, business, may grate upon 

 the ear of those conversant only with the pleasure, and 

 brings to my mind the waggery of a story, appertaining, 

 I believe, to Theodore Hook, in which a citizen is driven 

 to exasperation by being told that he could not, by any 

 possibility, have any husincss in his boat, — his own boat, 

 — because, as is ultimately explained to him, it is his 

 pleasiire-ho^t. But I contend, that it is a business of 

 no slight importance to cater for the amusement of a 

 whole county ; setting aside the hopeless effort to give 

 unqualified satisfaction, it is a business so to conduct 

 all matters as to do justice to those who have confided 

 to him the administration of the policy which rules the 

 destinies of the little empire which is his theatre of 

 action. I have been told, upon the best authority, of 

 that great general, to whom I have before alluded, that, 

 on the eve of battle, not only would he sleep soundly, 

 but say that he had as good a right to sleep, then, as 

 the Lord Mayor had in London, even should they be 

 all killed and eaten by the enemy on the morrow, having 

 made all the dispositions calculated to guard against 

 every contingency, and entitle him to feel that confi- 

 dence in his own resources which was the forerunner of 

 victory. So, in like manner, j:)a?'i'2*s componere magna — 



