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Title: The hunting field with horse and hound in America, the British Isles and France
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Peer, Frank Sherman
Subjects: Hunting Fox hunting
Publisher: New York, M. Kennerley
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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to drop in the midst of twentyeager beagles, tumbling over each other in their eagernessto secure a share of the spoils. Meanwliile the sun had reached the west horizon and itwas decided therefore to hunt no more that day, but torepair to the inn for tea. The inn lay three-quarters of amile away and twilight had settled in before we reached thetavern door. On long tables within were tea, bread and jam.In less time than I can tell it, the boards were swept bare, ourhost distraught and a famine still raging. Meanwhile the bea-gles had been loaded, and our traps were now waiting beforethe tavern door. On leaving the inn, I chanced to pass the taproom. I fancy few such rooms in England have survived themodern notions of a correctly appointed bar-room. The floorwas flagged and somewhat lower than the threshold. On threesides of the room casks were piled high one above the otherto the ceiling. The latter was low and black with the smokeof three hundred years. Rough hewn beams furnished the
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Foot Beagles 221 ceiling support and from one which spanned the centre, hunga dingy, battered, bronze lamp. Beneath was a table warpedlike a potato chip and around the table sat three of the nativesimbibing. Chief of this clan was the sporting crippleabove referred to, whom I overheard remark to his pal, Avebeen ere summers above fifty years and Ave niver afore cardtell as ow an are jump the Weir Water. Said a loquacious sot in rejoinder: Ave card my faathertell as ow e did. Whether it was the hare or the old fellows sire, who per-formed this daring feat, I did not stop to inquire or whetherindeed a hare had ever been known to jump the Weir Waterbefore. By tliis time the affair has very likely possessed thewhole village. No doubt all the wonderful feats of fifty yearspast will be aired in the discussion and the Squire, himself,will do well to settle the point before the villagers take sides. The journey back to Oxford was scarcely less interestingthan our excursion out. There is the s

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