. Short sketches of the wild sports & natural history of the highlands. Hunting; Natural history. FOX-HUNTING IN THE HIGHLANDS CHAPTER XXX Fox-hunling in the Highlands I HAVE very little to say on this most momentous of all sporting subjects; and that little will, I fear, be sadly " Unmusical to Melton ears. And harsh in sound to ; But what are a set of poor fellows like us to do, living here amongst mountains, and ravines, and torrents, and deep water- courses, and morasses, against none of which the best horse that ever put foot on turf could contend for five minutes ? It
. Short sketches of the wild sports & natural history of the highlands. Hunting; Natural history. FOX-HUNTING IN THE HIGHLANDS CHAPTER XXX Fox-hunling in the Highlands I HAVE very little to say on this most momentous of all sporting subjects; and that little will, I fear, be sadly " Unmusical to Melton ears. And harsh in sound to ; But what are a set of poor fellows like us to do, living here amongst mountains, and ravines, and torrents, and deep water- courses, and morasses, against none of which the best horse that ever put foot on turf could contend for five minutes ? It took me, I must confess, some time before I could get over all the finer tone of my Leicestershire feelings ; and I have no doubt that I blushed a perfect scarlet the first time that I doubled up a fox ^ with a rifle-ball; but now, rendered callous by use and necessity, I can do execution upon him without a pang. ' The fox is still common in Scotland, but the enmity of farmers and shepherds, together with guns and traps, have reduced its numbers of late years. Mr. J. Colquhoun in The Moor and the Loch, vol. ii., has a good chapter on the Highland fox. It lives much on sheep and lambs, whereas an English fox only kills lambs in times of scarci ty or when it has ciibs, But there is no reason to suppose the two are of different Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original St. John, Charles William George, 1809-1856. London, John Murray
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