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and at the close of the season a few boys 

 with five-grained forks would speedily set all 

 to rights ; nor can there be any doubt that 

 the best crop in the field would be on that 

 particular spot. Allowing even for a moment, 

 for argument's sake, that expense, trouble, or 

 loss might be thus occasioned, there is not a 

 master of hounds in all Ireland — neither, I 

 fancy, in any other country — who would not 

 willingly and cheerfully indemnify the owner 

 of the land. But so long as the world lasts, 

 so long will there be blindness ; and until the 

 ** happy hunting-grounds " are reached, horses 

 and horsemen will be daily anathematised hy 

 the seK- willed cultivators of our native soil. 





