Delaware and the Eastern shore; some aspects of a peninsula pleasant and well beloved . HUNTING, FISHING, YACHTING nat holy men forget the softening and sweet-ening influence of close communion with natureat all hours of the day and in all her moods andaspects. Boys often took horse and dog and gunto boarding school, thus mitigating the painsof education. He is a dull man who does notfeel himself in good company with a well-breddog or a well-bred horse. No doubt the sportsthat now occupy our youth were too much neg-lected by those lovers of the care-free life inthe open, so long as game was af
Delaware and the Eastern shore; some aspects of a peninsula pleasant and well beloved . HUNTING, FISHING, YACHTING nat holy men forget the softening and sweet-ening influence of close communion with natureat all hours of the day and in all her moods andaspects. Boys often took horse and dog and gunto boarding school, thus mitigating the painsof education. He is a dull man who does notfeel himself in good company with a well-breddog or a well-bred horse. No doubt the sportsthat now occupy our youth were too much neg-lected by those lovers of the care-free life inthe open, so long as game was afoot near homealmost the year round, and no jealous closedseason restricted the normal activities of vig-orous, country-bred folk. But the sports ofthose days escaped the sordid commercialismthat soils those of to-day, and is any form ofathletic exercise quite so wholesome as thatpractised by nearly ten generations of Penin-sular tolkV ^ Fox hunting was a favorite sport from colonial daysup to comparatively recent times. Some of the farms onBohemia Manor were held upon leases one pro
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