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that the pace gave a fox no chance, and that it was, 

 in fact, a steeple-chase with hounds before you ; and 

 would return to his own country, where, if a fox 

 was found in one cover, he just cantered away to 

 another, and would swear, that what he held to be a 

 perfect hunter, could not show his merits but in such 

 a country as he hunted in. 



JSTow I remember Mr. Gage coming down into the 

 Duke of Richmond's country, certainly not the best ; 

 he brought four or five horses with him he had 

 hunted in Leicestershire ; he, different to our last- 

 mentioned friend, d d the covers, the country, 



and the foxes ; and swore that if he stayed in it, he 

 would sell them all, and buy fifty-pound hacks, 

 which he complimented the country by holding to be 

 quite good enough to ride as hunters in it. 



It is true, that men riding common horses, in such 

 a country as that our friend hunted over, may and 

 do sell their horses sometimes advantageously ; but 

 where the generality of persons ride horses of pretty 

 much the same stamp, this would not be often, for 

 where sixty or seventy is held as a long price, it 



