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produce that is thereby caused would be eagerly welcomed 

 by any other country in the world, if they had the oppor- 

 tunity to secure it ; and, without hunting, the pinch of free 

 trade would be felt far more acutely than it even is at 

 present. 



The fostering of field sports is a national question. 

 The hardihood and resource that are thereby engendered 

 go far towards making the national character ; and if 

 Waterloo was won in the Eton playing-fields, it is the love 

 of sport that make the rank and file the all-conquering 

 soldiers that they are, the envy of the world, and the 

 despair of foreign nations — Vivat Regina, et fiat Imperium 

 in orhe terrarum. 



THE END, 



