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Identifier: britishsportpast09cumi (find matches)
Title: British sport past and present
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Cuming, E. D. (Edward William Dirom), 1862-1941
Subjects: Horses Hunting Hunting
Publisher: London : Hodder and Stoughton
Contributing Library: Webster Family Library of Veterinary Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Tufts University

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ully, and give me out here, in the wild forest, the wholesome feeling of being at home among friends. And am I going with them? Certainly. He who falls in with hounds running, and follows them not as far as he can (business permitting, of course, in a business country) is either more or less than man. So I who am neither more nor less, but simply a man like my neighbours, turn my horses head to go. There is music again, if you will listen, in the soft tread of those hundred horse-hoofs upon the spungy vegetable soil. They are trotting now in common time. You may hear the whole Croats March (the finest trotting march in the world) played by those iron heels; the time, as it does in the Croats March, breaking now and then, plunging, jingling, struggling through heavy ground, bursting for a moment into a jubilant canter, as it reaches a sound spot. . . . But that time does not last long. The hounds feather a moment round Malepartus, puzzled by the windings of Rei- 24 Fox-hunting : Jumping the Brook
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