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But there are other perſons whoſe ſuffrages I am very deſirous of obtaining, that may be inclined to look with diſdain on a Work that treats chiefly of Hare-hunting, and ſeems to give it the preference to all the diverſions of the fame kind. I mean the noble fraternity of Fox-hunters. As a Sportſman, I would carefully deprecate the reſentment of ſo reſpectable a body, nor preſume to defend the Author of the following Letters, in queſtioning the allowed ſuperiority of Fox-hunting over the humbler

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