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ing, but they are the most difficult people with 

 whom a sorely -tried M.F.H. has to deal. I 

 refrain from giving my opinion on these gentle- 

 men ; what that is I may leave to the imagination 

 of my readers. 



One word more respecting the writer of the 

 attack. The attack may be justified in some par- 

 ticulars, though I have shown that in the account 

 given by the critic there is nothing to lead a man 

 who can read between the lines that it is. Every 

 M.F.H. is not a sportsman, and the M.F.H. in 

 question may not draw his coverts properly. But 

 he has been given no opportunity to defend him- 

 self, and the generalisations made from the parti- 

 cular instances are not justified by the facts of 

 the case. These generalisations aim at the very 

 foundation of fox-hunting, and as the author of 

 them says he yields to none in his love of the 

 sport, so may we fox-hunters answer, "Save us 

 from our friends." 



