Scenes From the Saddle (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from Scenes From the Saddle The physical pleasure arising from being on horseback and being in control of the partnership is probably the most general reason for devotion to hunting. To the huntsman it is the performances of his hounds individually. For a few it partakes of a form of society function, but this feature can only occur with the ultra-fashionable packs and is entirely absent from the smaller hunts, where the attraction is hunting and little else besides. He who lives in a natural hunting district and through years of association knows every farm and byeway for miles round, has bred and broken his hunters to the third and fourth generation, such an one, if he is engrossed in business as his daily occupation, is probably he who gets at least as much satisfaction out of it as any one, and that is saying a great deal. A generalisation truly, but one based on forty years´ experience. These few notes have been put together in appreciation of, and as a very brief expression of, the pleasures, mental and bodily, of forty seasons, and with a feeling that it may prove to be a reference to a national institution which may shortly cease to find a place. There are comparatively many young women who hunt, but within the writer´s experience hardly any young men. The war took a heavy toll, and the necessity of close application to professions or business under the present conditions of living has taken most of the rest. Of the men who hunt, the great majority of those who carry the burden of the expense are middle-aged or elderly, and although their activities will eventually be curtailed by age, taxation appears to be at the moment the more immediate foe to fox-hunting. 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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