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Title: Mr. Crop's harriers
Year: 1895 (1890s)
Authors: Bowers, G
Subjects: Horses Fox hunting
Publisher: London : Day & Son
Contributing Library: Webster Family Library of Veterinary Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Tufts University

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A Day with the Fallowfield Foxhounds. Mr. Crop gets unexpectedly introduced to the mistress of the Hurricane Staghounds,Mrs. Korpe-Korpe (from behind a bush) having parted company, at a wire fence, with her horse,which Crop has stopped. No, not a l)it hurt, tluxnks; but will you kindly give me my skirt ?It is left on my saddle ! With an afternoon fox they get better acquainted; and on Browser joining them, both areinvited to drive over, lunch, and see the kennels and hounds at HuEEicANE Lodge. A comfortable old-fashioned house, gracious hostess, pleasant people to meet them. Capitalluncheon. Perfectly arranged kennels. Stables full of useful wear and tear sort of horses.Five-and-twenty couple of well-bred hounds. Reuben, the huntsman, has known Mrs. Korpe-Korpe =4 I
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(25) half her hfe, and if she ever gave him a chance, by being absent from a meet, would be master aswell as huntsman. The widow also holds her own with Mr. Beans, the stud groom; a difficultmatter, but quiet women generally get their own way, and Beans knows his mistress zvillhave hers. Among the widows visitors is Mr. Hoick, her hard-riding brother, who often stays withher; Lord Sobersides, a middle-aged bachelor of a serious turn; his sister, the Hon. MissMaj^field, a great h-iend of Mrs. K.-K.s; and Mr. Hardup, an old acquaintance of Browsers, whohas a wife and six childi-en, and yet manages to keep horses at Blushington, whence he hunts inall directions four or five days a week. After a pleasant visit, our friends drive home, fourteenmiles over a lovely hilly country, wild and open, without sign of wire or railway. It is fullyappreciated by Crop, who admires the widow, her hounds and horses, and now covets her country.Sort of woman who looks best in a habit, says Browser; hasnt m

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