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Identifier: britishsportpast09cumi (find matches)
Title: British sport past and present
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Cuming, E. D. (Edward William Dirom), 1862-1941
Subjects: Horses Hunting Hunting
Publisher: London : Hodder and Stoughton
Contributing Library: Webster Family Library of Veterinary Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Tufts University

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e without doubtScottish deerhounds. Deer-stalking found favour with Scottish landowners andothers during the last quarter of the eighteenth century ; butfew men who lived elsewhere than near the forests took anypart in the sport. Captain Horatio Ross was one of the mostsuccessful stalkers of the earlier days before the example ofthe Prince Consort made deer-stalking the fashion. In theseason of 1828 he shot 87 deer to his own rifle on a largerange of shooting called Feloar, which he rented from the Dukeof Athol : in 1837 he killed 75 head in Sutherlandshire : andin 1851 his bag on Mar Forest was 118. Captain Rosss namelives in history principally as that of a magnificent shot withthe rifle ; and it is worth noticing that in one day on MarForest he had fourteen chances and killed thirteen deer. Scottish resident sportsmen introduced their Englishfriends to the game : and Squire Osbaldeston said that Mr.William Coke was the first man that went in earnest deer- 224 Deer-Stalking: A Royal
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  • booksubject:Horses
  • booksubject:Hunting
  • bookpublisher:London___Hodder_and_Stoughton
  • bookcontributor:Webster_Family_Library_of_Veterinary_Medicine
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