Excerpt from Science of Foxhunting and Management of the Kennel
My Lord Duke,
Highly complimented as I feel by your Grace's kind condescension in accepting the dedication of this unpretending little work, many misgivings arise in my mind that it may prove undeserving that patronage so graciously accorded. I have not the vanity to think that any observations of mine, although resulting from long and hardly-earned experience, can impart any new light to such scientific Foxhunters as yourself. Your Grace's position, as Master of one of the oldest packs of Foxhounds in the world, would suffice to make you equally, if not better, acquainted with all those details relative to Foxhunting and the management of hounds upon which I have descanted in the following pages. Throughout these will appear many remarks upon the occupants of the Belvoir kennels, which were never penned in anticipation of their appearing in a separate volume, or presuming upon the honour of your Grace's patronage. On this point I trust to be acquitted of undue preference for that pack of Foxhounds, of which I have often before had occasion to make mention in the most laudatory terms.
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