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one year, would be but fallible, unless I could arrogate 

 a discretion in their disposition to which I have no 

 claim. The rule must not be taken, either from a want 

 of capacity for economy on the one hand, or from (that 

 which is far from my case) the affluence which causes 

 indifference to items on the other. It is a duty which 

 we owe, not only to ourselves, and to the proper use of 

 means with which we are entrusted, but to the cause, to 

 steer a middle course, avoiding equally parsimony and 

 profusion. "Waste not, want not," should be the ruling 

 principle. If I have not been able to bring down my 

 own expenditure within the compass of the following 

 schedule, I can vouch for its accuracy, as a calculation 

 of all expense absolutely requisite, and inevitably con- 

 tingent upon an effective establishment, for three days 

 per week, or seven days per fortnight, in Herts ; of 

 course, entirely exclusive of the personal concerns 

 of a master of hounds, with regard to his own hunt- 

 ing. 



