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CHAPTER XIX 



FARMING AND FOXHUNTING— 193B 



N this final chapter I want to set out my ideas 

 about the true relationship of farming and fox- 

 hunting. I cannot do better than quote the 

 broadcast talk which I had with Mr. Anthony 

 Hurd. 



A. H. : Well, I hope you have all had a good 

 Christmas. Those of us who live in the country or 

 in many of our provincial towns were reminded of 

 foxhunting on Boxing Day, and to-night I think we 

 are still sufficiently full of Christmas not to want to 

 discuss the weather, or foodstuffs, or quotas, so Mr. 

 Charles Whatley and I are going to have a Utde 

 discussion about farming and foxhunting. Mr. 

 WhaUey is a well-known farmer in my part of the 

 country, and he hunts regularly— or as regularly as 

 business allows— with the V.W.H. (Cricklade). ^ 



Whadey, you have been both farming and hunting 

 for many years ? 



C. W. W. : Yes, it must be something like forty- 

 five years— nearly half a century. Perhaps you 

 think it about time I gave up both. 



A. H. : No, no, I would not say that. I am 



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