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properly are retained in a hunting establish- 

 ment. The expense, however, is consider- 

 ably augmented ; but in what way can a 

 man spend his money with more satisfaction 

 to himself and friends ? 



If fox-hunting should be annihilated, our 

 superior breed of horses would degenerate; 

 the farmers would give up breeding, if the 

 chance of selling a horse for a hunter, at a 

 profitable price, was hopeless : the conse- 

 quence would be, the country in general 

 would suffer; it would be impossible to 

 procure horses for His Majesty's cavalry, and 

 the present very expeditious mode of tra- 

 velling must naturally be retarded, for want 

 of the superior animals we now have, (unless 

 we go by steam). Can it be expected 

 farmers will be at the expense, trouble, and 

 risk of breeding, if they have not a chance 

 of selling their horses occasionally for 

 hunters; the inferior price given by go- 

 vernment for horses to mount the cavalry ? 



