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18th century, but as Irish hunting countries, and 

 many English, too, were ill-defined until about that 

 period, every proprietor of a pack could extend his 

 operations pretty well as he pleased. The establish- 

 ment of Hunt Clubs put a cur)b to these venatic wan- 

 derings, and boundaries became understood, and wv 

 spected ; but after all, these are but the 

 perfecting of the business of foxhunting, whilst 

 the principlet of the sport whidh our re- 

 mote forefathers learnt in a ruder and rougher 

 school than ours have been handed down to us of a 

 later generation, still exist as the basis of modern 

 hunting, and will remain as long as the pursuit of th 

 fox endures amongst us, and those who come after us. 



Jan: 1911 



