This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1862 Excerpt: ... of fox-hounds generally throughout the country, I think the plan would succeed, and a club be formed which might be inferior to none in point of respectability, and the high station in life of many of its members. I think it will be admitted by even large game preservers that the laws of fox-hunting are rather a ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1862 Excerpt: ... of fox-hounds generally throughout the country, I think the plan would succeed, and a club be formed which might be inferior to none in point of respectability, and the high station in life of many of its members. I think it will be admitted by even large game preservers that the laws of fox-hunting are rather a protection to them than otherwise. Were it in the power of every owner of coverts to choose his own pack, what endless confusion would ensue throughout the length and breadth of the land. The law courts would be fully occupied every term with actions of trespass, and nearly every man at enmity with his neighbour. Englishmen are, constitutionally, I may say, fond of the chase, and the noble science has many more advocates and devotees in the present time than it has ever before possessed. The current has set in, and seems so strong in that direction, that it would be hopeless for individuals, however powerful, to endeavour to fight against it; and that man must possess a very narrow and selfish mind indeed, who would needlessly interfere with the amusement of the many, when it costs himself very little or nothing. It is far better to have respectable establishments, with gentlemen, generally, at their head, founded and conducted upon honourable principles, under the long-established law or custom of fox-hunting, than a lot of scratch packs, quarrelling and squabbling in the country, which would be the case were the old laws of fox-hunting done away with. Many game preservers are secretly, though not perhaps openly, hostile to fox-hunting, because their keepers inform them that the foxes devour half the pheasants. Should there be a bad breeding season, or Mr. Keeper appropriate rather more eggs or birds than usual to his own share, all are put down t...
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Fair+ No Jacket. 302 pp. Fair+ copy, quarter leather w/ green leather and green boards, gilt illustration on front board, title on spine. No DJ. Rubbing of leather, light chipping at head and foot of spine. Soil and fading of boards and creasing at corners. Pages have faded and there is light foxing throughout affecting borders of text and plates; text remains bright and other than faint pencil note on title page, free of markings. Front inner hinge showing light cracking, tissue over frontis has been removed.
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