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joyed^ could be done without ; and further, though 

 he might not actually think, *' que le jeu ne 

 vaut pas la chandelle," yet as a "pis aller,'' 

 the justifiable pride of hunting with his own 

 harriers has, now that the first enthusiasm of 

 youth has past, no bad succedaneum for the 

 greater eclat and stimulus of his early career. 



But we may, on the other hand, suppose 

 he had been always of less aspiring character, 

 consequently in his predecessor's time he had 

 always hunted with his father's harriers and now 

 hunted with them as his own. 



Supposing the squire to be a character, now 

 grown almost obsolete, namely, a man born and 

 reared in the country and seldom quittine: it, 

 or at most but for a very short period, the 

 facility of travelling is now such, that fresh 

 fish and the squire are both brought a distance 

 of two himdred miles in something like eight 

 hours. London men and country men are now 

 so amalgamated that the old patriarchal squire is 



