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Title: The hunting field with horse and hound in America, the British Isles and France
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Peer, Frank Sherman
Subjects: Hunting Fox hunting
Publisher: New York, M. Kennerley
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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rack until it looks as if he would surelyturn somersault backwards into our laps. This accountedfor the unusually long traces. Had he been properly hitched,something must have given way at this extraordinary per-formance. Our driver was wearing a smock coat, blouse, or whateverit may be called. It was puckered across the breast, andgathered in about the low fitting neck, and came well downbelow the knees. From beneath its ample folds he now drawswhat in the Western country would be called a black snakelash (a limber black leather cutting-whip) about four feetlong, which he flourished about our heads with a crack like thereport of a gun. At this, the great stallion comes down to theearth again; then, with a wild challenging neigh, that fairlyshakes the forest, the noble beast springs into a canter with hisfirst stride. Talk about riding on a gun-carriage of lightartillery, or on a fire engine at full gallop, or being run awaywith in a lumber wagon over a corduroy road, all of which the
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The 3Iarquis de Chamhrays Hounds 303 writer knows by experience to be of a stirring nature!—well,this two-wheeled French gig with a wild stallion to draw it,and a very devil of a driver with a black snake behind him,was gun-carriage, fire engine, and a runaway lumber wagoncombined. Out from their retreat broke at least twenty wild andstartled deer. It was as grand a sight as ever a huntsmancould wish to see. Among the lot, his head with toweringantlers sweeping high, came forth the lordly stag. What asight! The females and younger members of the herd boundedaway, but not the monarch. Stately and proud, he movedalong as became his station. The woods, meanwhile, wereringing with shouts of men, tooting of horns, and baying ofhounds, to which music our stallion set up such a roar as wouldshame a lion. The writer has witnessed many stirring sights in the forestsafter the lordly moose, caribou and deer, but the carriage andgentlemanly bearing of this noble stag, was a sight never tobe for

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