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to answer. Whether or not I have been able 

 to fight my battles and maintain my cause, 

 must be for others to determine. 



I likewise subjoin a little paper on ** Hunting 

 in Ireland " — also already published — which 

 brought me many letters : some of them from 

 persons whose word should carry undoubted 

 weight, fully coinciding in and substantiating 

 my views with regard to the cutting up of 

 grass-lands ; whilst further on will be found my 

 article entitled " Hunting in America," origin- 

 ally published in Life^ and copied from that 

 journal into so many papers throughout the 

 kingdom, and abroad, that it is now universally 

 known, and cannot be here presented in the 

 form of a novelty, — but is given for the benefit 

 of those who may not have chanced to meet 

 with it, and for whom the subject of American 

 sports and pastimes may happen to possess 



interest. 



N. P. O'D. 



