The Burns Inquiry (or Committee of Inquiry into Hunting with Dogs in England and Wales) was a Government committee set up to examine the facts in the debate in the United Kingdom about fox hunting and other forms of hunting with dogs.
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In evry hour that passes, O:
What signifies the life o man,
An twere na for the lasses, O.”
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