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Title: Cross country with horse and hound
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Peer, Frank Sherman
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Publisher: New York, C. Scribner's sons
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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one object, so far as the young foxes areconcerned, is to bustle them about, so that when the regularseason opens and they hear hounds coming, they will breakcovert quickly. No sportsman likes to hear of hounds chopping a fox in covert. They desire to give himplenty of law, a very generous start, and then catch him ifthey can. It is not sport to take game at a disadvantage.To the genuine sportsman it is something shocking to seea man hunting rabbits with a ferret. The ferret is sent intothe burrow, out bolts the rabbit, and the gunner with a shot-gun at the mouth of the hole blows the top of bunnys headoff. Or he gets some blank cartridges and a hundred feetof fuse, fastens the fuse to a cartridge, and with a piece ofwire rams the cartridge in a burrow. Bang! goes thecartridge, and out bolts the rabbit or fox to certain death.Shame on the men who call this sport! They are notsportsmen, but butchers. Sportsmen of this calibre oughtto go home, rope an ox, draw him on the barn fioor, and
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-a JO Oh CQ The Hound Puppy at Walk 187 knock him on the head with an axe. It would be thesame kind of thing. Was the bird flying from you, oracross or toward you, when you hit it? asks the father ofhis son who comes running to him with his first partridge.* He was sitting on the ground, repUes the delighted boy. Sitting on the ground ! roars his father. Sitting onthe ground ! Never let me hear of your doing such anunsportsmanlike thing again. Always give the bird achance, my boy. If he does nt get up, frighten him up.Then, if you are clever enough to drop him, there is somecredit in the shot. Such should be one of any boys firstlessons. But a great deal of this butcher business goes onin America, for one reason or another. A man is not sat-isfied to catch fish by the skilful throwing of a fly, but mustbuy a net or explode a charge of dynamite in the bottomof the pool, and pick up the murdered fish as they float tothe surface. And they call this sport! But ware fish, author, ware fish

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