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in general confined to people who have 

 small incomes and large families, — educa- 

 tion being much cheaper, and no taxes to 

 pay, are the principal inducements ; but if 

 the national amusements are done away 

 with, more particularly fox-hunting, which 

 affords enjoyment to all ranks, and the 

 utility, of which to every grade is so very 

 conspicuous, not only the needy will emi- 

 grate, but the opulent and even the higher 

 orders, for they will be deprived of their 

 chief amusement in the winter. — But let 

 us leave such sad forebodings and get on 

 the line again. 



There are those who think hounds go 

 too fast, and fancy a fox has no chance with 

 them. How is it, then, he so often beats 

 the pack ? No doubt, if hounds, on a good 

 scenting day, go away close at his brush, 

 they have every prospect of killing him, 

 if they do not change, which will often hap- 

 pen where foxes are plentiful. In the long 



