Kings of the hunting-field : memoirs and anecdotes of distinguished masters of hounds and other celebrities of the chase with histories of famous packs, and hunting traditions of great houses . e it their headquarters during the hunting seasonwould be deeply and justly offended if it were describedas dull, but it certainly is far less lively, though, nodoubt, much more decorous, than in the wild days whenCaptain John White and his chum Captain Maxse,Val Maher, Squire Osbaldeston, Horatio Ross, LordKennedy, Captain Douglas, Sir David Baird, theMarquis of Waterford, and others of the like kidney
Kings of the hunting-field : memoirs and anecdotes of distinguished masters of hounds and other celebrities of the chase with histories of famous packs, and hunting traditions of great houses . e it their headquarters during the hunting seasonwould be deeply and justly offended if it were describedas dull, but it certainly is far less lively, though, nodoubt, much more decorous, than in the wild days whenCaptain John White and his chum Captain Maxse,Val Maher, Squire Osbaldeston, Horatio Ross, LordKennedy, Captain Douglas, Sir David Baird, theMarquis of Waterford, and others of the like kidney made things hum there. A hard-riding, hard-drinkingset they were, always ready for any devilment, or anydeed of reckless daring, for no bolder spirits, no finerhorsemen, no more enthusiastic sportsmen ever fore-gathered in any one spot on this earth from the daysof Nimrod to our own. Among the foremost of these madcaps was CaptainJohn White, whose claim to a place among famousfox-hunters the following brief record of his exploitswill, I think, satisfactorily establish. Coming of a goodcounty family, John White was born at Dalesford inCheshire in the year 1790, and was sent to school at. \
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