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rough and ready sort of customer, not to be 

 looked down upon on that account. Peradventure 

 the pack are the veritable old blue mottles or 

 crossed with them, a sort that would stick to 

 their hare if she crossed an American Prairie 

 on fire, who will not be deterred by strong 

 gorse or an underwood of thorns, from which 

 the faster, more highly bred, and symmetrically 

 formed pack of the squire would shrink when 

 coming in contact with their delicate skins ; the 

 former pack are a strictly useful though perhaps 

 not an ornamental lot, so are their patrons ; it 

 would be well if we could say as much for 

 those entrusted with the affairs of the nation, 

 the latter want a cross sadly with a more 

 working sort. 



The farmer usually hunts the hounds himself, 

 who being of a sort that take them at their 

 work seldom make mistakes, when they do 

 their own cast sets them right, so with such 

 the chief business of their huntsman is to 



