exemptions, and I truſt the time is not far diſtant when they will receive it from the wiſdom and authority of Parliament.
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
ſon of ninety-nine ſhall be liable to pay five pounds for killing a hare on his own, is a ſoleciſm too evident to need a comment.