Eighty Years' Reminiscences, Svazek 1Longmans, Green, and Company, 1904 |
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Strana 351 - Hallaton Thorns ; there is a deep bottom and very steep hill here. I lifted the hounds (hoping to catch the leading ones there) to the far side of Hallaton Thorns. When I got half-way up the hill, two gentlemen on foot, who were rabbiting, showed me where the leading hounds were ; they had not come into Hallaton, but were pointing for Fallow Closes, along and outside the fence, in at the gate, and then away along the bottom. I only got thirteen couple away from here, " Merryman," "Streamer," "Relish,"...
Strana 346 - The field then divided into lots, the right-hand lot well with the hounds — Custance, Tom, Charlie White, Fraser, Topham, and perhaps twenty more; the left-hand lot — myself, Mills, De la Cour, Boyd, etc., about a field and a half behind the hounds. Hounds ran on without a pause past the spinney between Oxendon and Clipstone, leaving Oxendon village to the right, into the Farndon and Oxendon road. I came into the road opposite Mr. Kirkman's house. They checked here, and I lifted them on to a...
Strana 350 - I always told you so," says Captain Clerk (Tailby had been in it the day before). Through the wood like bells, and away on the other side towards Skeffington. Allan Young holloaed them away. On coming out of the wood I had a shoe off, and Walter de Winton changed horses with me. There is a nasty deep bottom at the end of the field, where Custance got his horse fast ; my horse, or rather Walter de Winton's, refused it, and Edgell * scrambled in. Just then I heard Dick whistle, and found him on the...
Strana 344 - Morris1 holloaed him away towards the tunnel. I was at the other end of the cover, and before I got to the hounds they had checked near the road. I took them along the road nearly to the white gate, where they got the line towards Arthingworth. They were ridden off the line in the first field, but swung round through the fence on to it again, over the brook and spinney at...
Strana 350 - Ferryman " cross, but not on the line ; however, they hit it off again, and went away towards Ramshead. I got the rest after them, and had eleven couple on — " Fanny " the last hound out. Dick and Tom both there. Three fields further on the fox tried the earth, where Tailby had run to ground on the previous Tuesday, and dug out. I looked at my watch ; one hour and fifty minutes, and, I think, about eighteen miles, and hounds had only once been off the line, when I lifted them at Little Oxendon....
Strana 312 - I know your tastes so well that I am quite sure that you would not be yourself without a pack of hounds ; and, indeed, the longer I live the more I find cause to agree with Jorrocks, that 'all time is wasted that is not spent in hunting...
Strana 176 - My colonel was very angry, and ordered his men to give no quarter. I was lying at some distance, with my wound bandaged, when I saw them coming. They came on magnificently. We thought they were drunk from the way they held their lances. Instead of holding them under their armpits, they waved them in the air, and, of course, they were easier to guard against like that. The men were mad, sir. They never seemed to think of the tremendous odds against them, or of the frightful carnage that had taken...
Strana 350 - I jumped off, got over the rails, and set sail all right again. Some men rabbiting had turned the fox half a field to the left, and they ran clean away from us again. John Chaplin and another were before me, but kept too far to the left. I got along the road to...
Strana 346 - Robertson l and another down, blocked the way. The field then divided into two lots, the right-hand lot well with the hounds — Custance, Tom, Charlie White, Fraser, Topham, and perhaps twenty more ; the left-hand lot — myself, Mills, De la Cour, Boyd, etc. — about a field and a half behind the hounds. Hounds ran on without a pause past the spinney between Oxendon and Clipstone, leaving Oxendon village to the right, into the Farndon and Oxendon road. I came into the road opposite Mr. Kirkman's...
Strana 352 - We cut along the road, and got on the line directly, ran hard down the meadows to the Welland, near the angle of the river at Welham ; turned to the left along the bank of the river, as far as the road which goes to Medbourne station, there turned to the left up to the windmill, and got on to ploughed land. Here Captain Clerk turned up. The fox had been coursed by a sheep-dog, and repeatedly turned.