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gentleman was observed going up to a rich 

 farmer, — " What do you think has hap- 

 pened ?" " What ?" answered the farmer, 

 with the greatest anxiety ; " have any more 

 banks stopped ?" " No," replied the gen- 

 tleman ; " worse than that — poor ' Thun- 

 der ' is draughted, and we shall never have 

 any sport again." The means taken had the 

 desired effect for a time ; but a subscriber 

 was lost, — who coolly observed, he never 

 would go out hunting again, if he was not 

 permitted to halloo to the hounds whenever 

 he pleased. 



It gave me much pleasure to find from 

 your last letter, that you had decided upon 

 hunting your own hounds; I can see no 

 great crime in a gentleman performing the 

 office of huntsman, — and no reason why a 

 man with a good education should not 

 succeed in every thing he undertakes bet- 

 ter than a person who has had, compara- 

 tively speaking, but an indifferent one, or 

 perhaps none at all. A distinguished noble- 



