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a credence to every murmur and complaint which 

 the ill-conditioned are always, and in many instances 

 unjustly, prepared to make about damage done 

 to crops and fences, we should be laying ourselves 

 open to a very heavy tax upon fox-hunting ; but 

 where absolute mischief has been caused by inadvert- 

 ently driving sheep into pits or rivers, whereby they 

 have been drowned ; or where a crop has been undoubt- 

 edly injured by being frequently cut up by the horse- 

 men near to a favourite cover, a handsome remuneration 

 ought undoubtedly to be made to the farmer thus suf- 

 fering. If this kind of attention and courtesy, from 

 the field, towards the country people, were rather more 

 practised than it is, the disappointment of a blank day 

 would be scarcely ever experienced ; and those self- 

 created men of fashion ivho swarm in the various Spas 

 in many of the hunting countries, to the annoyance of 

 the gentlemen and farmers, would meet with a far 

 more welcome reception in November than is frequently 

 the case. 



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