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in the field they will hunt together and 

 mutually assist in killing their fox. 



Now, in my statement of the feelings of 

 some dogs towards each other, though it 

 shows that on certain points their aim is the 

 same ; this holds good between gentlemen and 

 tradesmen in another way, the one seeks 

 conTenience, the other advantage ; so like the 

 hounds, each has his aim, but that aim is 

 difterent. 



There is also this very wide difference, the 

 dog only probably dislikes one hound in the 

 pack, but is on the most friendly terms possible 

 with all the pack beside. The gentleman dislikes 

 the whole pack, excepting the one, two, three, 

 or more, as the case may be, that he has 

 found different from the community. 



Having figuratively described the feelings of the 

 gentleman, who of course has never been in trade, 

 and the man who has always been so, by com- 

 paring the feeling to that of hounds, let me 



