But 'the juke's country' is a well-known land.

There are names connected with it which are familiar not only in England, but all the world over, where men--and where do they not ?--converse of sport.

Something beyond mere utility, beyond ploughing and sowing, has given it within its bounds a species of separate nationality.

The personal influence of an acknowledged leader has organised society and impressed it with a quiet enthusiasm.
Even the bitterest Radical forgives the patrician who shoots or rides exceptionally well, and hunting is a pursuit which brings the peer and the commoner side by side.
The agricultural population speak as one man upon the subject.

The old farmer will tell you with pride how his advice was sought when disease entered the kennels, and how his remedy saved the lives of valuable hounds.