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advantage of this privilege should be taken ; 

 but we " live and learn :" I have seen so 

 many days sport marred by it, that I now 

 disapprove of it, and think it better to allow 

 your servants to take Christmas boxes, a 

 thing in the end perhaps more beneficial 

 to them ; but you will have some difficulty 

 in persuading them to it. I have heard, 

 with some packs near London, on a Satur- 

 day (" Le grand jour de la Chasse" ) the 

 huntsmen will ocasionally turn down a bag- 

 man (of course unknown to their master) ; 

 they cannot resist the temptation, when 

 they are certain of a large Field, and the 

 cap-money on those days amounts to some- 

 thing considerable. 



A good-tempered sensible first whipper- 

 in, that will obey, and has the sport of the 

 day, and his master's interest at heart, is 

 not very often to be met with. I have had 

 some very good ones, and some very bad ; 

 of the latter, the very worst tempered man 



