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of those hounds, I will be bounci to say he 

 will evince an uneasiness and dissatisfied manner 

 about him, that shews though from some reason 

 he may give his sanction to its being done, 

 he is, as it were, half ashamed of it. There 

 is, however, still this diiFerence between stag- 

 hunting and hunting the bag fox. The stag 

 is sooner or later sure to be retaken, the bag- 

 man is by no means so. Yet even with this, 

 there is something unsatisfactory to the sportsman 

 in killing an animal we had by us a few hours 

 before, It is a feeling somewhat difficult to 

 define, and one which it would be absolutely 

 impossible to make a man, not a sportsman, un- 

 derstand. It is not, however, like finding a wild 

 fox, and kiUing him. You might, for instance, 

 talk to all eternity to a Frenchman about it, he 

 would only shrug his shoulders and say "je 

 n'en voit pas la difference." By the by Monsieur 

 ridicules our hunting, and I think fox-hunting 

 more than any other. Now if he ridiculed the 



