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PART V. 



HUNTING IN AMERICA. 



There is a great land across the Atlantic 

 where they do great things, and utter great 

 sayings, and patent great inventions, and 

 erect great buildings — and where, in short, 

 the inhabitants beat us (as they themselves 

 say) ^^ all to fits!*' 



A mighty nation they are, too — God prosper 

 them as they deserve ; but there is one thing 

 at least in which we can say, without boasting, 

 we are able to beat them, and that is, in our 

 hunting. A fox-hunt in America is a very 

 tame and inglorious proceeding, and one which 

 decidedly would not come under our definition 

 of '' sport." 



American hunting differs in the first instance 



