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country, and the rogue is, on an average, a fair 

 match for the pack ; when hunted he has a chance 

 for his life, and a very good one — the murderous gun 

 would give him far less. If the hypercritic or hyper- 

 moralist says we have no right to kill a fox at all, 

 it is too knotty a point forme to discuss ; at all events, 

 till the truth of such hypothesis is proved to me, 

 though I am advocating the cause of the quadruped, 

 I shall always fill a bumper whenever foxhunting is 

 the toast. 



" Surely" (it may be said) " you can bring forward 

 no excuse for torturing the timid and inoffensive 

 hare." 



Nosv, if it was proved we are not to kill a fox, it 

 most certainly would place fox-hunting in a position 

 it never before stood or, with submission, I believe 

 ever will stand ; so if any one can prove we must 

 not eat hare, it would place hare-hunting in the 

 same jeopardy ; but it has not been proved, so we will 

 look to such weeping accusation againsthare-hunting. 

 Torturing is a term that grates on the feelings of 

 every one, who has any about him ; but in what 



