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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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had in pickle for us. Thiswe saw at a glance by the tea kettle simmering by the opengrate fire. Is it to your liking? inquired the good housewife.Splendid, we rephed, but McDougal in characteristic Scotchreplied, Its na too bad, its a wee mite sweet, perhaps, butam thinking twill do. Then looking slyly over the top of hissteaming glass he adds, A dinna ken but am thinking itmight ha been worse. We offered a toast to the health of all the McDougals—may their shadows never grow less; to all the late comers at themeet—may they never lose heart; to the foxes of the fells andthe moor—may they ever continue to show hounds the way;and the Kilmarnock hunt—may it always have sport; and lastto mention, but first in our hearts, Bonnie Scotland forever. PART IIIHUNTING IN FRANCE To Baron de Dorlodot. My ideal sportsman and gentleman true,A man of endurance and pluck.The best pigeon shot that all Europe can boast.In wild boar hunting he captures the most.While with foils he is ever in luck
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BARON DE DORLODOT XXV HUNTING IN FRANCE THE NATURE OF THE GAME—BARON DE DORLODOT—THE KEN-NELS THE FOREST OF SENOUCHES. C^ ROINI rude snares and drives into mire, on down through■■ the age of the crudest weapons and the hand si^ear tothe present day, the taking of the wild boar has beenattended with great danger. The Hon is styled the King ofbeasts, but he is a coward in comparison with the wild boar.The wild boar, being a purely herbivorous animal, has nooccasion to prey upon any other animal. Stealth is, therefore,to him an unknown quality. His fighting is always defensiveand, as against his common enemies, the wolf and bear, heinvariably came out ahead, therefore he has come to think ofhimself as the master of the universe. There is no animal, in the whole list of big game or small,that has such an exalted opinion of his own power and abihty^to defend himself against all comers, as the wild boar. He is armed with great tusks in the lower jaw that are fromfour to six inches i

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