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STAG-HUNTING RECOLLECTIONS 



second horses have had an average day's hunting before they 

 are requisitioned for active service, having been obhgedto keep 

 going. Nicks and points serve them very Httle. However, I 

 do not v^ish to further load this page with ' the gibberish of 

 hunting studs,' to borrow a phrase from a puzzled Quarterly 

 Keviewer of the Delme-Eadcliffe day. 



I will only again quote Sir Henry Simpson on the very 



JosiAH Miles, Stud Groom to the Queen's Hounds, 

 OcTOBEE 1843 TO Maech 1894 



point which led to a deliverance from the Archbishop, that 

 is, the cruel strain upon the horses. It is always an advantage 

 to hear both sides, however unevenly matched from the point 

 of view of knowledge of the subject. It is in no sense a 

 rejoinder, as it was written in October, long before the Arch- 

 bishop came to the front. This is what the layman has to 

 say : ' As regards hunting casualties or illness, the result of a 



