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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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tent? Would he say,as the Baron de Dorlodot did, Gentlemen, I am getting old,I am now hunting the wild boar two days a week; I will here-after hunt him four days a week and if that does not do, Iwill have to hunt him six daj^s in the week. There are some effeminate men and some sentimentalwomen who would sooner tie a bit of perfumed ribbon abouta foxs neck or a fishs tail and let them go again, the one tobe caught in a steel trap, or to die of starvation or disease, theother to be devoured by the larger fishes, than think of tak-ing the life of the one by pursuit in the chase or the other bythe artful casting of the sportsmans fly. If the chase is such a degrading factor in the upbuildingof national character, then must Merry England be one of themost degraded countries in the world, for nowhere in the worldis the chase so universally indulged in by all classes, and espe-cially by the most intelligent, courteous and refined people,as in Great Britain. As previously stated there are in
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The Marquis de Chambrays Hounds 309 England, Ireland and Scotland about four hundred and fiftyorganised packs of hounds; two hundred packs are for the chaseof the fox, one hundred and ninety-eight packs for the chase ofthe hare and the remaining number are devoted to the chaseof the stag, the wild red deer and the otter. Many of thesepacks hunt four and five days a week throughout the entireseason. Among the followers of the chase in England, as in Franceand Germany, are the nobility from the Royal family down.In England they are the members of the House of Lords andthe House of Commons almost to a man; the officers of thearmy from the commander-in-chief to the lowest subaltern;the Judiciary, from the Chief Justice to the village pettifog-ger; doctors of divinity and doctors of medicine. Not only is the chase followed by the aristocracy andwealthy classes of England, but the spirit of the chase pervadesevery mothers son and daughter of the Kingdom. If thereis any single characteristic

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