Reminiscences of a Huntsman (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Berkeley, Grantley F.

9781330674086: Reminiscences of a Huntsman (Classic Reprint)

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ISBN 10: 1330674081 ISBN 13: 9781330674086

Verlag: Forgotten Books, 2019

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He is said to have been an ungraceful rider. He prided himself to the last, says Mr. Charles Kent in the Dictionary of National Biography, upon having learnt pugilism from Byron's instructor, Jackson, and retained until far on in middle life a coarser kind of buckish coxcombry. He delighted in wearing at the same time two or three different-coloured satin under-waist coats, and round his throat three or four gaudy silk neckerchiefs, held together by passing the ends of them through a gold ring. Even when he had come to be an old man, he piqued himself upon having been the last to cling to the ﬂat cocked hat of polite life known early in the century as the chapeau bras.

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Excerpt from Reminiscences of a Huntsman

He is said to have been an ungraceful rider. He prided himself to the last, says Mr. Charles Kent in the Dictionary of National Biography, upon having learnt pugilism from Byron's instructor, Jackson, and retained until far on in middle life a coarser kind of buckish coxcombry. He delighted in wearing at the same time two or three different-coloured satin under-waist coats, and round his throat three or four gaudy silk neckerchiefs, held together by passing the ends of them through a gold ring. Even when he had come to be an old man, he piqued himself upon having been the last to cling to the flat cocked hat of polite life known early in the century as the chapeau bras.

About the Publisher

Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com

This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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These "Reminiscences of a Huntsman" are offered to the Public, in the hope that, while they may afford amusement to the Reader, whether sportsman or naturalist, they may at the same time convey to the booted and spurred of the rising generation a higher appreciation of the animals of their use or abuse; for in many kennels I have seen as much of the one as of the other.

Many men have really seemed to me to opine that a horse was only made to be sat upon, jerked in the mouth and spurred, whipped or driven, while hound and dog were locomotive machines, unsusceptible of weariness, to be lashed when in fault, and ridden after when in the right, and that neither the one nor the other were susceptible, under better treatment, of increased capabilities. In short, their owners seemed to fancy, that, "like the walnut-tree, the more you beat them, the better they be;" and that the duty of a huntsman lay in throwing the hounds into cover, while that of a whipper-in was to give a cut to every hound on road and field that came within the reach of his long whip. There is an old saying, that "not one horse in a thousand suits a single snaffle, and that not one man in a million is fit to be intrusted with a curb."

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This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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