Observations on Fox-Hunting, and the Management of Hounds in the Kennel and the Field: Addressed to Young Sportsman, About to Undertake a Hunting Establishment (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Cook, John

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ISBN 10: 1330093194 ISBN 13: 9781330093191

Verlag: Forgotten Books, 2018

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Excerpt from Observations on Fox-Hunting, and the Management of Hounds in the Kennel and the Field: Addressed to Young Sportsman, About to Undertake a Hunting Establishment

E the time it has cost me from my leisure hours will have neither been thrown away nor misapplied.

Having ventured to say thus much as to the object of this little Publication, I shall conclude my brief Introduction by disclaiming every wish to appear either too sullenly insensible to the voice of censure, or to the smiles of approbation too feelingly alive. I wish not for the praises of a literary chronicle: let the critic lavish his encomiums on the more lengthened and maturer labours of the ma thematician, the logician, the poet, and the philosopher; thus reserving his patience and his praise for works of graver interest and weightier materials, to which, so oft and so judiciously.

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Excerpt from Observations on Fox-Hunting, Vol. 28

The work that is now placed in our hands is but little known to the present generation, though a modern Master of Foxhounds would do well to follow every word of advice it contains. The author himself was M.F.H. and carried the horn at the beginning of the last century. A study of his remarkably sound treatise on Foxhunting leaves us with the reflection that the essentials of the sport have changed but slightly since the Battle of Waterloo. He speaks of the excessive preservation of game, of the difficulties of earthstopping, of the jealousy of the riders, in a tone which makes it difficult to believe that a hundred years have glided by since he gained his experience, while his advice on the management of hounds and country at once proclaim him master of a system approved by all recent authorities.

Colonel John Cook was born at Christ Church, in Hampshire, in 1773, a date in the history of England when the patricians were at the very zenith of their power, and in addition to directing the politics, had also placed themselves at the head of the field sports of the country. The era of Squire Western and Tony Lumpkin was passing away; a Foxhunter was no longer a synonym for a sot, a clown and dunce, and had ceased to be the butt of a satirist and the fine gentleman. Lord Chesterfield had died in the same year that our author was born, and his proposition that "Foxhunting was only fit for bumpkins and boobies" had by that time been deprived of most of its meaning.

About the Publisher

Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com

This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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• Verlag: Forgotten Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1330093194
• ISBN 13: 9781330093191
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 316
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