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CHAPTER IX. 



THE PROVINCES. 



' Rough and various ground. ' 



ROUND the ' Shires ' lie some dozen or so of packs, with many 

 of which, save for the name of the thing, it is possible to get 

 as good sport and as good fun as in those more fashionable 

 districts ; and some few of which actually do over the same 

 ground. Whyte-Melville has drawn for his own purpose a very 

 wide distinction between the ' Shires ' and the ' Provinces,' 



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