The noble science : a few general ideas on fox-hunting, for the use of the rising generation of sportsmen, and more especially those of the Hertfordshire hunt club . CHAPTER XII. Nihil est ab omni, Parte beatum. HOR. Ille terranim mihi prceter omnes,Angulus ridet. Id. Hunting from Home—M. F. H. in his own Country—Presents—The lateMr. Hanbury—Popularity—Satisfaction—Rights of Country—Support ofHunting—Errors of Custom—Remedies—Difficulty of Reformation —Earth Stopping—Mr. Smiths Plan—Game-keepers—Habits of Foxes—Importance of Rural Amusement—Decline of Shooting—New Game Bill—Fox-hunting the onl
The noble science : a few general ideas on fox-hunting, for the use of the rising generation of sportsmen, and more especially those of the Hertfordshire hunt club . CHAPTER XII. Nihil est ab omni, Parte beatum. HOR. Ille terranim mihi prceter omnes,Angulus ridet. Id. Hunting from Home—M. F. H. in his own Country—Presents—The lateMr. Hanbury—Popularity—Satisfaction—Rights of Country—Support ofHunting—Errors of Custom—Remedies—Difficulty of Reformation —Earth Stopping—Mr. Smiths Plan—Game-keepers—Habits of Foxes—Importance of Rural Amusement—Decline of Shooting—New Game Bill—Fox-hunting the only Resource—Estimate of Expenses. It is highly important to the interests of the NobleScience, that every man, blessed with the means of pro-moting the sport of fox-hunting, should endeavour soto do, to the utmost of his power, in his own country. 248 THE NOBLE SCIENCE. Happy is it for him who is located in the provincials,if his domestic comforts are such, that he considersnothing could compensate for the loss of them; stillhappier, if he thinks that hunting from home is every-thing—that fox-hunting, all over the world,
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