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HUNTING. 



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of stag-hunting on the, 37 ; 

 trying nature of, to hounds, 

 48 ; account of a stag-hunt 

 with Arthur Heal at, 55 



Fairs, horse, 184 ; purchasing 

 hunters at, 185 



Farmers, compensation to, 164 



Fences, different ways of riding 

 at, 219 



Fitzhardinge, Earl, against loud- 

 voiced whippers-in, 156 



Fitzwilliam pack and country, 

 272 



Fordham, George, repudiation of 

 spurs by, 223 



Fortescue, Lord, 32 



Founder, 113 



Fownes, Thomas, an early 

 keeper of foxhounds, 28 



Fox, George Lane, his opinion 

 of hare-hunting, 83 



Foxhounds, first regular em- 

 ployment of, 28 ; dwarf, as 

 harriers, 74 ; drawing, 146 ; 

 losing scent, 149 ; accessible 

 to Londoners, 285 ; lists of, 

 in the United Kingdom, 333 



Fox-hunting, literary notices of, 

 24 ; how pursued in the last 

 century, 29 ; introduction of 

 present style of, 33 ; com- 

 parison of past and present, 

 34 ; the practical work of, 

 146; by moonlight, 196; from 

 London, 287 



Fox, traditionary enmity to the, 

 26 ; habits of the, 62 ; his 

 scent, 65 ; his behaviour before 

 hounds, 66; going to ground, 

 68 ; his trick of thrusting 

 another fox into the line, 70 ; 



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hand-reared cubs, 71 ; dietary, 

 ib. ; mange in, caused by horse- 

 flesh, 72 ; meeting a pack of 

 harriers, 75 ; alleged killing of 

 lambs by, il>., 164 ; protection 

 of game birds from, 73 ; pre- 

 dilection of, for bogs, 146 ; 

 chopping of, 148 ; coursed by 

 a dog during a run, 150; 

 habits of, in breaking covert, 

 155 ; feeling of farmers to- 

 wards, 164 ; poultry -killing 

 propensity of, 165 ; construc- 

 tion of artificial earths for, 166 

 Freeby Wood, a famous meet at, 

 228 



Gardiner's ' Hare Hunting,' 

 20 ; reviles fox-hunting, 25 



• Gayman,' a queer-looking 

 hunter, 184 



Gelding, when first adopted in 

 England, 171 



George HI., stag-hunting by, 31 



George IV., at a run from 

 Aldennaston to Reading, 31 ; 

 at a famous run in the Cottes- 

 more country, 240 



Gibbons, Mr. J. S. , initiates the 

 Harrier and Beagle Associa- 

 tion, 90 



Gillard, Frank, his remedy for 

 distemper in hounds, 137 



Glossary of hunting terms, 368 



Goodwood kennels, cost of, 120 



Goosey, fox-hunting aphorism 

 of, 149 



Grafton, Duke of, pack of, 269 



Grantham, 228 



Greene, Squire, 208, 211 



Grooming, 117 



Glooms, ignorance in, 91 



