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Title: The condition of hunters : their choice and management
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Nimrod Barton, Frank Townend, b. 1869
Subjects: Horses Fox hunting
Publisher: London New York : John Lane
Contributing Library: Webster Family Library of Veterinary Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Tufts University

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ur seasons have nowelapsed since I awakened the attention of my brothersportsmen to a different treatment of their huntersat the various periods of the year ; and I have neveryet had this cast in my teeth— / have tried yourplan : I have followed your directions in my stable :hut I have received no benefit therefrom. On thecontrary, I have had assurances out of number of theexcellent and permanent effects derived from a steadyperseverance in them ; and, as Truth is called thedaughter of Time, I think I am justified in comingto the conclusion—that I am right. Certain is it Ihave had some opponents ; but theory alone has beenbrought to bear against me, and that could not standlong. Classically speaking, we might as well give thepreference to the historian Livys eloquent accountof Hannibals celebrated Passage of the Alps to that ofthe soldier Polybius, who personally explored his route.Now, lest I should be deemed presumptuous, Ishall take this opportunity of counteracting such an a6o
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I CONDITION OF HUNTERS RESUMED 261 impression. About two years back a hard-ridingWarwickshire sportsman addressed me thus : Weare highly indebted to you for your excellent plan oftreating hunters in the summer. Pardon me,I said, it is not my plan ; it was known and prac-tised before I was bom. That might be, repliedmy friend, but to yourself is due the credit of havingmade manifest what was not made manifest before.This, then, is the credit I take ; and here ends mypreface. I am not aware that, at the present moment, Ihave anything very particular to add on the subjectof summering the hunter—nothing certainly as faras theory can direct me ; but a little practical mattermust always be welcome to those who have studs. Atthe conclusion of last hunting season (i.e. the seasonof 1826 and 1827) I hired Thomas Morris, Mr Haysgroom, for the Marquis of Cleveland ; and havingheard from several of the very superior condition ofLord Clevelands hunters this last winter, I wrote toThomas Morris t

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