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his conjecture ; my friend kept his word ; 

 we found a litter of foxes in the home-wood, 

 and the honest farmer ever afterwards was 

 a sincere well-wisher to the hunt. 



I have avoided as much as possible writ- 

 ing on subjects unconnected with fox-hunt- 

 ing, but I cannot resist saying a word or 

 two in behalf of my friends, the farmers, 

 arising from the experience I have had in 

 France. I am fully convinced if the ports 

 were open at home, it would be a great hard- 

 ship upon them; for they cannot possibly af- 

 ford to sell their grain at so low a price as 

 the growers on the Continent can export it. 

 The latter have so great an advantage in 

 having neither poor-rates or tythes to pay. 

 I have read, among the advertisements in 

 the English papers, of farms to be let tythe- 

 free, but never remember having met with 

 one that was exempt from poor-rates. 



Another great advantage a farmer has 

 on some parts of the Continent over the 



