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Then, again, there are those who persist in hunting 

 and jumping, although they are constantly "kivered 

 all over with the creeps." Possibly we may wonder 

 why they thus turn hunting, which is supposed to be 

 a pleasure, into a duty, but one cannot help admiring 

 them for being too proud to admit, even to themselves, 

 that they are afraid, or for refusing to be robbed of 

 " their courage which is not fearlessness but self-re- 

 spect." After all, "the beginning of all aristocracy 

 is the subjugation of fear." 



