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50 sovs agst allowed 3lb amongst Bay Middleton beat Bentinck's Blottemberg Broadwath called Captain carry 3lb Club Colonel colts course Derby distance Doncaster Duke Eringo favourite field fillies fish five foals four fox-hunting Frank Raby gentlemen Goodman's Goodwood half HANDICAP Hargrave heats hero honour hounds hunting huntsman II.-NEW SERIES kennel Lady Langar Leger LEGER STAKES look Lord Albemarle's Lord Eglinton's Lord Exeter's Lord G Lord Lichfield mares master MASTERS OF HOUNDS match meeting mile Moloch morning Muley Moloch never Newmarket once round Osbaldeston's owner pack Peel's PLATE of 50 pounds Pytchley QUEEN'S PLATE Raby race Royal season second horse recd six and aged sold sport sportsman Squire STAKES of 25 started stud subs SWEEPSTAKES three yr Velocipede whilst Winks winner yachts yards young yrs old
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Page 271 - Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion be your tutor : suit the action to the word, and the word to the action...
Page 332 - ... the same passions among the descendants of the hostile tribes. In private life, every man, at least every family, was the judge and avenger of its own cause. The nice sensibility of honour, which weighs the insult rather than the injury, sheds its deadly venom on the quarrels of the Arabs ; the honour of their women, and of their beards, is most easily wounded ; an indecent action, a contemptuous word, can be expiated only by the blood of the offender ; and such is their patient inveteracy that...
Page 360 - French call jours des dames, warm without sun, is generally a perfect one : there are not many such in a whole season. In some fogs, I have known the scent lie high: in others, not at all; depending, I believe, on the quarter the wind is then in. I have known it lie very high in a mist, when not too wet; but if the wet should hang on the boughs and bushes, it will fall upon the scent, and deaden it.
Page 360 - ... prognostic of good luck. When cobwebs hang on the bushes, there is seldom much scent. - During a white frost the scent lies high; as it also does when the frost is quite gone: at the time of its going off, scent never lies: it is a critical minute for hounds, in which their game is frequently lost.
Page 250 - Weatherby's office in London before ' starting, or not entitled to receive though a winner. The winner
Page 41 - STAKES of 15 sovs each, 10 ft. and 5 only if declared, &c. with 150 added by the Innkeepers of Dudley ; the owner of the second horse reed, back his stake.
Page 58 - Manor, three years old 8st. 21b., four 8st. ll1b., five 9st., six and aged 9st. 41b., m. and g. allowed 31b.; the winner to be sold for £80 ; last half mile (11 subseribers).
Page 73 - ... say, not down the vale, but either for the woods of Heythrop, or Ditchley, or, as oftentimes, for the forest of Witchwood. Upon this day, however, the fox took a very different course, going straight down the vale for Pain's Furze, near to the town of Moreton-in-Marsh, and thence to Bourton Wood — beyond Bourton-on-the-Hill — now hunted by Lord Segrave. Nor was this regretted by the young Oxonians, although it took them in a contrary direction to their homes. It gave to Frank Raby, and to...
Page 12 - Then you really believe it was intended that the courage of these birds should be displayed to man as an example ?" " I do." " And in the method pursued in Bob Dolly's cockpit ? " " Ah, there you press me too hard now. I can only say that, if they do fight at all, the arming them with artificial weapons is the very reverse of cruelty, for the contest is sooner ended, and their sufferings trifling in comparison to what they would have been, had they fought with their own natural weapons, by lacerating...
Page 275 - I shall stay him no longer than to wish him a rainy evening to read this following Discourse; and that if he be an honest Angler, the east wind may never blow when he goes a-fishing.