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and we who know the sweet delights of a good 

 gallop over rich grass-lands, dotted pic- 

 turesquely with the harmless beech or elm, 

 and with nothing more dangerous to negotiate 

 than fair broad fences and five-barred gates, 

 need never sigh for the yawning ravines of 

 foreign hunting-grounds, with their trea- 

 cherous boulders and dangerous Mimosas. 



