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many of them never having a horse to ride, 

 and following on foot. For the man on 

 foot with fox-hounds I have the most pro- 

 found respect and admiration. I mean, of 

 course, the genuine article, not the loafer 

 with a club and a hare-pocket in the inside 

 of his coat, nor the determined and ignorant 

 sightseer, who stands in the middle of the 

 field next the whin covert, displaying British 

 independence when asked to "come in," or 

 who obstinately sits on a gate hallooing 

 every time a fox attempts to break ; but 

 the dauntless man whose love of the sport 

 and hound work is such that he counts as 

 nothing aching limbs and blowing bellows, 

 nor the weary tramp home, if he can only 

 get a look in. 



It is not the footman who alone sins 



