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every one's servant. If he is to bear with equanimity 

 all the petty annoyances that strew his path from day 

 to day through the season, he will want the patience of 

 an angel and the tact of a Colonial Minister. If he 

 should endeavour to take a high and mighty view of 

 his position, he will come to sad grief. When, for 

 instance, the owner of the shooting forbids him his 

 coverts, forbidden they are, and he has absolutely no 

 remedy. If he has not country enough to hunt in 

 November, the month in which shooting-people are at 

 their worst, why, then he must stay at home. I can well 

 remember more than once being absolutely at my wits' 

 end to provide a day's sport in my country at the time 

 I write of, and perhaps after all I could only arrange a 

 desultory day on the bleak Downs. 



