With Horse And Hound From British Sport Past And Present
With Horse And Hound From British Sport Past And Present
E D Edward William Dirom Cuming
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He gives one wild and hurried look of fear, and dares the desperate leap. It is done. He has jumped from a height of at least thirty feet on to the shore, and in the next moment is floating in the salt sea waves. Fortunately, one or two sportsmen on the beach keep back the eager hounds, or some of the best of the pack would in all probability have been sacrificed, or at least maimed, in the attempt to follow their quarry in his deed of daring. A few minutes suffice to man a boat, and put a rope... round the horns 38 STAG-HUNTING of the deer. The victim is dragged in triumph to the beach, the knife is at his throat, and amid the baying of the pack, and the loud whoo' whoops of the crowd, the noble and gallant animal yields up his life. ' The generally accepted idea that carted-deer hunting is an invention of degenerate modernity is mistaken. The Royal Buckhounds enlarged deer from a cart at the beginning of George ii. 's reign. There are references in the Accounts of the Great Wardrobe to the ' deer van ' or ' deer waggon ' as far back as 1630, but there is nothing to show that this vehicle was used for conveying the deer to the meet.
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