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act of turning out an animal already in our 

 possession to hunt, however, I might defend the 

 act as intended to produce sport, my conscience 

 could but make me admit he had some reason on 

 his side, but if he can tolerate hunting at all it 

 is stag-hunting. The very size of the animal 

 pleases him and he considers it " une grande chasse." 

 The stag hunter will never be classed wich 

 the fox hunter as a sportsman by sportsmen, let 

 it be observed by the stag hunter I mean the 

 man who hunts with stag hounds, and those 

 hunted under the former system of the Queen's 

 and the old Earl Derby's. He from some 

 cause preferred stag to fox-hunting ; a great boon 

 to the Londoners it was his keeping tbem, and 

 a great boon was it also to the town of Croy- 

 don, and very deservedly popular it made Lord 

 Derby. Him we hold as a sportsman, his keep- 

 ing a pack of hounds be they of what kind they 

 may shew him as such if there had not been other 

 particulars that fully entitled him to be so held. 



