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accidents happening on the road, and what 

 numbers also to persons shooting ! When 

 you take into consideration, that on a mo- 

 derate calculation, at least ten thousand 

 people hunt constantly throughout the 

 season, with fox-hounds only, and many of 

 them young men full of emulation, no 

 judges of what sort of cattle are proper for 

 their weight, and all anxious to be first, 

 riding at every thing that comes in their 

 way ; you cannot but be surprised that so 

 few accidents happen. During my sojourn 

 in France (now a number of years), I of 

 course have had to lament the loss of many 

 of my friends and acquaintances ; I scarcely 

 ever take up a newspaper but it contains 

 the death of some one I have known, yet 

 although the majority of my friends are fox- 

 hunters, it is not a little singular, that I 

 have only lost one of that description, 

 during the whole period of my absence. 

 This fact speaks forcibly for the healthiness 



