. Irish memories . aven 1 I was told it was written by two women ! An old hunting man, a friend and contemporary ofSurtees and Delme Radcliffe, wrote to us saying thathe was The Evangelist of the Irish It is theonly doctrine that I preach ... It is ten yearssince I dropped upon it by pure accident, and, likeKeats, in his equally immortal sonnet— Then felt I like some watcher of the skiesWhen a new planet swims into his ken, I am so deeply grieved that you cannot hunt. Ican sympathise. It is sixty years since I began hunt-ing, and I know how you must miss it. Now yourealise the truth of Jo
. Irish memories . aven 1 I was told it was written by two women ! An old hunting man, a friend and contemporary ofSurtees and Delme Radcliffe, wrote to us saying thathe was The Evangelist of the Irish It is theonly doctrine that I preach ... It is ten yearssince I dropped upon it by pure accident, and, likeKeats, in his equally immortal sonnet— Then felt I like some watcher of the skiesWhen a new planet swims into his ken, I am so deeply grieved that you cannot hunt. Ican sympathise. It is sixty years since I began hunt-ing, and I know how you must miss it. Now yourealise the truth of John Jorrocks. For hunting islike the air we breathe, if we have it not, we dont do that. Ever yours, etc. etc. We have had many letters containing inquiries ofa sort that taxed both memory and invention to findreplies to them. Bewildering demands for explana-tions, philological, etymological, zoological, of suchstatements as The Divil in the Wild Woods wouldntcontent him, or Flurry Knoxs refusal to be seen. AT BUNALUN. GONE TO GROUND. A. c.
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