 
    Excerpt from The Sporting Dictionary, and Rural Repository of General Information Upon Every Subject Appertaining to the Sports of the Field, Vol. 1 of 2: Inscribed to the Right Honourable the Earl of Sandwich, Master of His Majesty's Stag Hounds
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