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bagged the most game : " I know nothing 

 about that, Sir," said he, " but the men who 

 beat for the Gentlemen killed one hunched 

 and twenty head f now if the foxes had 

 only taken one-tenth of what the beaters 

 knocked on the head, it would have made a 

 great noise in the country, although a single 

 fox would have shewn a hundred neigh- 

 bouring gentlemen a day's sport. It would 

 be no very difficult matter to have pheasants 

 driven up so as to shoot them from your 

 drawing- Room window, and thus treat 

 Mamma and the children with a partie de 

 Chasse ; they may then have ocular de- 

 monstration what a good shot Papa is! 

 I hope my brother Sportsmen of the trigger 

 will not be offended ; I am as anxious for 

 the preservation of game as any man ; my 

 only fear is that it will be carried to too great 

 an extent, and in the end defeat its object. 

 If I were to say a vixen Fox that had cubs 

 would not lay hold of the first eatable thing 



