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but I hope to as long as nerve lasts, and to see 

 Ireland again forgetting her troubles with the 

 great sport of kings cutting up her fields, knock- 

 ing down patient men's fences, but always wel- 

 come. As my first toast on my first page was 

 fox-hunting, let it be, as the Irish say, my " second 

 last," and one more, " Fox-hunters past, present, 

 and to come ! " 



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