. Records of stag-hunting on Exmoor. y Library of Veterinary Medicine Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine at Tufts University 200 Westboro Road North Grafton, MA 01536 The Crossroads ofSport, Inc. 15 East 54tK Street, Neu York Who loves nature ? Who does not ? Is it only poets and men of cultivation,who live with her ? No ; but also hunters, farmers and grooms and butchers,though they express their affection in their choice of life and not in their choiceof words. The writer wonders what the coachman or the hunter values in riding,in horses and dogs. It is not superficial qualities. When yo
. Records of stag-hunting on Exmoor. y Library of Veterinary Medicine Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine at Tufts University 200 Westboro Road North Grafton, MA 01536 The Crossroads ofSport, Inc. 15 East 54tK Street, Neu York Who loves nature ? Who does not ? Is it only poets and men of cultivation,who live with her ? No ; but also hunters, farmers and grooms and butchers,though they express their affection in their choice of life and not in their choiceof words. The writer wonders what the coachman or the hunter values in riding,in horses and dogs. It is not superficial qualities. When you talli with him heholds these at as slight a rate as you. His worship is sympathetic ; he has nodefinitions, but he is commanded in nature by the living power which he feels tobe there present. No imitation or playing of these things would content him ;he loves the earnest of the north-wind, of rain, of stone, and wood, and ... It is nature the symbol .... which he worships, with coarse but sincererites.—Emerson, The i.~ 7i-i Jih- ••m ^i^-^r . RECORDS OF STAG-HUNTING ON EXMOOR BY HON. JOHN FORTESCUE WITH ILL USTRA TIONS BY EDGMA GIBERNE LONDON: CHAPMAN AND HALL LIMITED1887 if?-! PREFACE. »— The source from whence the material for this presentvolume is mainly drawn is the record of the sport keptfrom day to day by the late Mr. M. F. Bisset, Masterof the Devon and Somerset Staghounds from 1855 to1881. On his decease this journal came, by bequest,to Lord Ebrington, the present master; and, in defer-ence to the wish of many old staghunters that someportion of it should be made public, it was thensuggested that extracts from it should be subjoined toa new edition of Dr. C. P. Collynss once well-knownbook, The Chase of the Wild Red Deer. This,however, was found to be impracticable, and book being now somewhat rare, it wasthought best that the ground gone over by himshould be traversed anew, and that extracts from record should be added,
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