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that an objection or divergent view, however 

 gently expressed, might open another flood- 

 gate, been false to our creeds, and thrown 

 our most cherished prejudices overboard ? 

 I wonder if Egerton Warburton had some 

 particular man in his eye when he wrote 

 the following stanza in his famous song, 

 " Quaesitum Meritis." I am certain that 

 many a man who has sung this verse has 

 thouo^ht of some one to whom the words 

 particularly applied — 



" For coffee-house gossip some hunters come out, 

 Of all matters prating save that they're about ; 

 From scandal and cards they to politics roam. 

 They ride forty miles, head the fox, and go home. 

 Such sportsmen as these we good fellows condemn, 

 And I vow we'll ne'er drink a quaesittmi to them." 



The master, huntsman, and servants are, 

 during the cub - hunting season, free from 



