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hundred a year one item in his expenditure. 

 He has the good will and thanks of all the 

 aristocracy and others who can afford to hunt, 

 as being the means of affording them what many 

 of those consider as their greatest enjoyment 

 and delight. He has, or at least deserves to 

 have, the gratitude of numbers of persons 

 employed directly or indirectly about this part 

 of his establishment. He encourages farmers by 

 consuming their produce, and probably, if they 

 are breeders of horses, by buying their colts to 

 an extent that makes the little damage some- 

 times done by breaking their fences a mere 

 bagatelle. A fishmonger's wife of Shoreditch or 

 Whitechapel may cry out "Shame to destroy 

 other peoples' property, and waste food for 

 Christians to eat, by riding over it." Let her 

 superintend the scaling and cleaning of her 

 husband's fish, but not let her tongue run in 

 speaking of matters of which she can know no 

 more about than she does of the habits of the 



