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maintained either a pack of fox-liounds or boar-hounds.* 

 George III. was strongly attached to hunting; his great 

 grandson, the Prince of Wales, " loves it better still." 



In all our streets, in our fields, in our highways and 

 bye-ways, along the surface of merry England, and across 

 it ; under ground in coal-mines ; revolving in a mill ; — 

 in short, in every direction, and wherever we go, we see 

 before us — sometimes as man's companion, sometimes as 

 liis servant, sometimes as his slave, and occasionally as 

 his master — the horse^ respecting which and his rider we 

 will now, without further preamble, venture to offer to 

 our readers the few following remarks. 



* Ahoiit 44 years ago a Frenchwoman, the proprietor of a small 

 farm, showed us, as a great curiosity, a "billet de logement" 

 which had been inflicted upon her, of which the following is a trans- 

 lated copy : — 



*' The widow will lodge for one night fifty-four dogs." [The Duke 



of Wellington's hounds just arrived from England.] 



" (Signed) , 



" Mayor." 



" Imaginez-vous done," exclaimed the poor old lady, uplifting 

 her eyes and the palms of both hands; "Imaginez-vous done — 

 cinquante-quatre chiens ! 1" 



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