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acquainted there are upwards of three hundred 

 farmers who take down the wire when the hunting 

 season opens, and that without pay. This speaks 

 well both for the hunt and for the farmers, and I 

 believe that within the limits of the hunt in 

 question the only farmers who had not taken their 

 wire down were two men who hunt regularly, and 

 are the keenest of the keen. This is merely want 

 of consideration, to which, indeed, all the cases 

 which I have mentioned may be attributed. But 

 it is a want of consideration which causes endless 

 inconvenience and trouble, and which certainly 

 ought to cease. 



