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great utility, it is a lounge three times a 

 week, where you are sure to meet your 

 friends, and can listen with pleasure to 

 their reports of the achievements of the 

 different packs of hounds the season past, 

 and the arrangements for the future. 



Suppose you purchase half a dozen 

 young horses, at a hundred guineas each, 

 to carry fourteen stone ; if two out of the 

 six turn out well, you ought to be satisfied, 

 as there is every probability of your selling 

 the remaining four for fifty each, barring 

 accidents. Many fox-hunters prefer tho- 

 rough-bred horses, others cock-tails ; I 

 always gave the preference to the former, 

 if it was possible to get them. It is 

 the general opinion, that thorough-bred 

 horses cannot leap so well as " cock-tails :" 

 I think otherwise ; and if you will try the 

 experiment, by taking ten young horses 

 of the former, and ten of the latter sort, 

 I am convinced you will find the thorough- 



