Category: History - British
I would also like to thank MESSRS. LONGMAN for their kind permission to include Ch. III. of Part II. which has already appeared in the ‘Hare’ volume of the Fur and Feather series published by them: MESSRS. ARNOLD for their kindness in allowing me to give a story of Rowland Hun...
I would also like to thank MESSRS. LONGMAN for their kind permission to include Ch. III. of Part II. which has already appeared in the ‘Hare’ volume of the Fur and Feather serie...
2. PART I.3. PART II.4. CHAPTER I.It was a manly country-loving boy who first undertook the task of introducing Beagles to Eton; a boy, versed in the etiquette of hunting and devoted to a healthy open air life,...
5. CHAPTER II.The College Hunt was founded in 1857 by R. H. Carter with J. A. Willis as his whip. It is a great misfortune that from this year until 1863, when the Journal Book was started, w...
6. CHAPTER III.The idea of amalgamating the College and the Oppidan packs of Beagles was first mooted in 1864, but little came of it, probably owing to the reluctance of College to renounce th...
7. CHAPTER IV.The year 1876 was as full of surprises as any that the E.C.H. has ever seen. It was a year of changes, one might almost say of revolution. For ten years the hunt had struggled o...
8. CHAPTER V.This will of necessity be a short chapter, as I have received few letters referring to the period. A terribly large number of those who were officials of the pack served both in...
9. CHAPTER VI.It was in 1899 that the Golden Age of the E.C.H. began. Every hunt has had its periods of prosperity, and for fifteen years after this date the sport shown by the E.C.H. was all...
10. CHAPTER VII.When the war cloud broke over Europe in the summer of 1914 the E.C.H. was in a very flourishing condition. During the season 1913-14 38 hares had been killed, which remains a re...
11. CHAPTER I.It would be indeed regrettable if our British hare were exterminated; yet, some thirty years ago, such seemed by no means impossible, for our stock was so rapidly diminishing th...
12. CHAPTER II.Kennel management falls under three headings, the arrangement of the kennels themselves, feeding, and exercise. It may be said at once that the management of beagles should be o...
13. CHAPTER III.Though perhaps it may be too much to say that hunting the hare on foot with a pack of 15-in. beagles is the most interesting method of pursuing the animal, still, if the evennes...
14. CHAPTER IV.I have been asked to contribute some remarks on the humanitarian aspect of hare hunting, much having been written to the Press on its cruelty, especially in reference to the E.C...