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make you amends. "Put them in, Danger" or 

 ■whatever his huntsman's name may be. Of 

 course an apology so courteously ofiered (but 

 which there are some few masters who would 

 hold unnecessary) all hats are off, and he has 

 added an item to the category of acts that 

 have produced an universal feeling of respect 

 and esteem from all present, or indeed absent. 



The very young owner of hounds would 

 probably not have done this. On the contrary 

 he would at times be late from the feeling he 

 had a right to be so, which of course no one 

 can deny, he would have felt that an apology 

 thus offered might be taken by farmers as 

 including them. Mistaken youth, farmers are far 

 too intelligent persons to take such apology to them- 

 selves, though they would fully appreciatethe court- 

 esy that publicly made no distinction of persons. 



We will suppose our owner of hounds acted 

 up to his wish of making his friends amends 

 for the trifling delay he had caused. They 



