CHAPTER IV 



THE EVERLASTING QUESTION 



" Of all the field pleasures wherewith old time and 

 men's invention hath blest the houres of our 

 recreation there is none to excelle the delight of 

 hunting." 



The quotation is from one of Gervase 

 Markham's books, a heavy tome some 

 three hundred years old, and for every 

 Court gallant and country squire who 

 took his pleasure in horse and hound 

 when the Stewarts were newly come to 

 rule in England, there must now be close 

 on a hundred men and women who think 

 that there is nothing in the whole world 

 quite like hunting. 



Horse and fox — too often in the shoot- 

 ing world the words are but another 

 rendering of pride and prejudice — have 



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