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or his own, so long as lie could see the working 

 of the hounds, he would be voted a nobody double 

 distilled ; but if the somebodies giving such votes 

 spent an after-dinner with the late Lord Darlington, 

 Mr. ]\Iusters, and Ward, if the discussion of the 

 merits of hounds and the intricacies of fox-hunting 

 were the subject, the owner of fifteen first flighters 

 might in his turn be thought, as a sportsman, a 

 nobody — lucky if he came off vrith so mild a cog- 

 nomen from the last-mentioned of these genuine 

 sportsmen. 



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