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Robert Smith Surtees was a dedicated sportsman who portrayed (and satirized) English fox-hunting society with great verve in his humorous novels. Published in 1847, Hawbuck Grange follows the adventures of Thomas Scott, Esq., an avid sportsman. The novel includes one of Surtees's most memorable passages: an exhilarating account of a hare hunt.… (plus d'informations)
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"Sport in fox hunting cannot be said to begin before October, but in the two preceding months a pack is either made or marred." - BECKFORD.
Chapter I.
"Harriers, to be good, like all other hounds, must be kept to their own game; if you run fox with them, you spoil them; hounds cannot be perfect unless used to one scent and one style of hunting. Harriers run fox in such different a style from hare, that it is of great disservice to them when they return to hare again; it makes them wild, and teaches them to skirt. The high scent which fox leaves, the straightness of his running, the eagerness of the pursuit, and the noise that generally accompanies it, all contibute to spoil harriers." - BECKFORD.
Chapter II.
[Several following chapters also have epigraphs]
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All we have got to say in the way of a preface to this work is, that our friend Tom Scott, seeing his Adventures advertised as the sporting adventures of "Thomas Scott, Esquire," wrote to us to say that he calls himself Mister - Mr. Thomas Scott, and that he has "THOMAS SCOTT, FARMER, HAWBUCK GRANGE," in honest parliamentary-sized letters, without flourish or eye-mystifying gewgaw, on the back of his dog-cart, as anyone who likes to inspect it may see. LONDON, October, 1847.
Preface to the original edition.
It was the horn I heard," said Scott, as the old mare again cocked her ears to the wind.
Chapter I. Cub-hunting.
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N.B. - Only purchasers of this work will be entitled to view Hawbuck Grange. They must come, Hawbuck Grange in hand, in fact.
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Robert Smith Surtees was a dedicated sportsman who portrayed (and satirized) English fox-hunting society with great verve in his humorous novels. Published in 1847, Hawbuck Grange follows the adventures of Thomas Scott, Esq., an avid sportsman. The novel includes one of Surtees's most memorable passages: an exhilarating account of a hare hunt.
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