Excerpt from The Life of a Fox, Written by Himself, And, Extracts From the Diary of a Huntsman More than eight centuries have rolled by since the attention of that keen sportsman, William our Conqueror, was drawn to the excellent hunting to be enjoyed in the land watered by the Avon, the Stour, and the Test, which caused him to mark off the New Forest as a royal chase, and ensure its preservation by laws of merciless severity. Never, since that distant time, has Hampshire lost its sporting pre-eminence among the southern ...
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Excerpt from The Life of a Fox, Written by Himself, And, Extracts From the Diary of a Huntsman More than eight centuries have rolled by since the attention of that keen sportsman, William our Conqueror, was drawn to the excellent hunting to be enjoyed in the land watered by the Avon, the Stour, and the Test, which caused him to mark off the New Forest as a royal chase, and ensure its preservation by laws of merciless severity. Never, since that distant time, has Hampshire lost its sporting pre-eminence among the southern counties; in spite of changing fashions and altered tastes, it still remains a perfect microcosm of English field sports. Fresh developments, indeed, have only served to bring out new points of excellence in this favoured county, for it is here that the latest refinement of modern sport - angling for trout with the dry fly - had its origin and may be enjoyed in the greatest perfection. The Normans, perhaps, had no time or mind for mere games; war, and the mimicry of war, were their only pastimes, except the sport of kings. But with the establishment of civil peace and in the leisure afforded by growing wealth and security, Hampshire men applied themselves to excel in games of strength and skill. Hambledon disputes with Mitcham, in Surrey, the honour of having been the cradle of the premier British game, cricket; and the world admires the ease with which, in these latter days, the men Of Hampshire have applied themselves to golf. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... 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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