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CHAPTER IX. 



THE PROVINCES. 





' Rough and various ground. ' 



Round the ' Shires ' he some dozen or so of packs, with many 

 of which, save for the name of the thing, it is possible to get 

 as good sJ>orf and as good fim as in those more fashionable 

 districts ; and some few of which actually do over the same 

 ground. Whyte-Melville has drawn for his own purpose a very 

 wide distinction between the ' Shires ' and the ' Provinces,' 



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