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possibility of the elder being admired any where, 

 though he will admit he is respected everywhere. 



So much for supposed owners of foxhounds. 

 Let us now turn to masters. Gentlemen filling 

 this situation sometimes are actually owners of 

 the pack, but this does not often occur. The 

 hounds are usually the property of a committee, 

 composed of the influential subscribers to the 

 Hunt. The horses for the servants where the 

 master does not hunt the hounds, are sometimes 

 the same. When the master hunts the hounds 

 he sometimes mounts his two whips. Of course 

 whether hunting the hounds or not he mounts 

 himself; I say of course, because it is rarely 

 otherwise, in fact I only knew of one or two 

 cases where it was so. 



The consenting to hunt a country is in- 

 fluenced by many causes, and the terms on which 

 a man undertakes it influences, in great measure, 

 the manner of doing it. There are masters of 

 hounds, men of fortune, who take up the 



