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appearance for weeks afterwards. And it certainly does 

 not behove us to welgli tlie pros and cons of tlie case for 

 them, or balance our convenience against their established 

 opinion concerning their own property. As to young 

 clover and other grasses, and still more sprouting beans, 

 they cannot be too carefully shunned ; and not only 

 is it a paramount duty on the part of all hunting-men 

 personally to fight shy of them, but it is indeed a matter 

 of urgent necessity, as well as of self-interest, that they 

 should insist that their second horsemen (by nature the 

 most reckless, by habit the most careless, of the followers 

 of the chase) also take heed of where they ride. The 

 latter class might well (as the master of the Quorn 

 recently pointed out) assist to minimise damage and 

 annoyance, instead of adding to either. And by care of 

 the farmers' interests they will very greatly serve those 

 -of their own employers. 



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