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the men, if you please, who (as mentioned in 

 the early part of this volume) do ride over the 

 farmer's wheat and break his fences, for they 

 can do it with impunity ; they are not known, 

 so compensation is out of the question. The 

 run over, he coolly takes one of his own 

 cigars, blows his cloud, seeks the railroad, which 

 blows a still greater cloud, and thus evaporates 

 in smoke ; fit ending for such a Sporting 

 character. 



In speaking thus lightly of the stag hunter, 

 be it noticed, I have only spoken lightly of him 

 as a Sportsman, not as a man ; for, from the 

 Earl of Derby keeping his stag hounds, down 

 to the man of smoke alluded to, so far from 

 doing harm to society, the one did a great deal 

 of good, the other, in his w^ay, if he does a 

 little mischief does good also ; he contibutes to 

 the finances of the rail road, to those of the 

 stable keeper where his hunter (save the mark) 

 stands, and to those of the tailor who makes 



