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legal rights and your own interests the sole 

 considerations to be taken into account if 

 harbourage and access were denied to the 

 fox and his hunters. Whether this would 

 be worth your while in other ways we 

 will not pause to consider ; we would 

 rather appeal directly to your generosity 

 as brethren of the great fellowship of 

 sport, who should surely all unite in 

 furthering the interests of sport generally, 

 even though it may involve some personal 

 inconvenience. Do this for us, and you 

 will not find us ungrateful or oblivious of 

 your sacrifices, which we will endeavour 

 to repay by every consideration of your 

 game and your ground. 



For the rest, the writer would re- 

 commend all game-preservers in hunting 

 countries to read the thirteen verses of 

 the thirteenth chapter of the first epistle 

 to the Corinthians, especially those about 

 the charity that suffereth long and en- 

 dureth all things. After all it is only 

 a negligible minority of game-preservers 

 who can find it consistent with their 



