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ing hacks and carriage-horses, which other^vise would 

 not be kept there, — they would see that, on a fair 

 calculation, the consumption Avould be, for eight 

 months only in the year, two thousand four hundred 

 quarters of oats, at two bushels per horse per week; 

 and if each horse have one hundredweight of hay per 

 week for eight months, two hundred horses would 

 consume three hundred and ninety tons of hay, etc. 

 It is indeed wonderful the effect of proper 

 civihty ; but probably a greater proof cannot be 

 given than this account of the following circumstance 

 — a fact which actually took place in a country 

 hunted by the writer. It happened, a year or two 

 before he hunted the country, that a notorious 

 character, celebrated by having ridden down the 

 Devil's Dyke at Brighton, when riding across a 

 field of wheat in a deep country, was accosted by 

 the o^vner of the land in very rough terms. 

 Owing to this gentleman's wearing a cap, he was 

 mistaken for one of the whippers-in, and thus 

 addressed : " You are a pretty sort of fellow to 

 ride across a man's wheat in this shameful way ; 

 when the hounds be running 'tis bad enough, but 

 to do it now is too bad ; and when all the srentle- 

 men be in the road, and you servants to behave in 

 this Avay, I'll soon make you be out on't " ; and 



