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than to try your luck here. But I would 

 remind all " birds of passage " that the Essex 

 does not advertise, and expects the trifle of a 

 thirty guineas' subscription from those out- 

 side its boundaries. In fact, of all the packs 

 we have just been dealing with as easily 

 accessible from the IMetropolis, only two — 

 the Queen's and Lord Rothschild's — are non- 

 subscription ones. 



I should never advise a man to keep his 

 hunters in London. The eternal bother and 

 ever-present risk of the boxing to and from 

 the scene of action on hunting days, and the 

 almost impossibility of properly exercising 

 horses in town, are drawbacks so great, as 

 to more than counterbalance the admitted 

 advantage of keeping them (and your groom) 

 under your own eye. 



But if this plan is adopted, always see that 

 your man starts in plenty of time for the 

 departure platform, for a slip upon the 

 greasy paving may be the result of an extra 

 sharp trot to catch his train. And after 

 hunting is over, don't ride straight off to the 



