Hunting Reminiscences

Name: Hunting Reminiscences
Author: Pease, Alfred E. (Alfred Edward), Sir

Pease, Alfred E. (Alfred Edward), Sir

Hunting

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  HUNTING REMINISCENCES
  BY
  ALFRED E. PEASE, M.P.

  Two Hundred Copies only of this _Edition de Luxe_ have
  been printed, and the Type distributed.

  No. 5

[Illustration: FROZEN OUT. From a coloured sketch by the late SIR FRANK
LOCKWOOD.]

  HUNTING REMINISCENCES

  BY

  ALFRED E. PEASE, M.P.

  AUTHOR OF “THE CLEVELAND
  HOUNDS AS A TRENCHER-FED PACK”
  “HORSE-BREEDING FOR FARMERS” &c.

  [Illustration]

  LONDON: W. THACKER & CO.
  2 CREED LANE, E.C. 1898
  CALCUTTA: THACKER, SPINK & CO.

[_ALL RIGHTS RESERVED._]

CONTENTS

                                                  PAGE
      I. REMINISCENCES OF THE CAMBRIDGE DRAG AND
           THE HOUSE OF COMMONS STEEPLECHASES        7

     II. THE LIFE OF A HUNTER                       43

    III. HOUNDS                                     77

     IV. HARE-HUNTING                              103

      V. FOX-HUNTING                               125

     VI. FOX-HUNTING--_continued_                  155

    VII. CUB-HUNTING                               183

   VIII. THE GREATEST RUN I EVER SAW               205

     IX. BADGER-HUNTING                            233

         INDEX                                     255

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

                                                    PAGE

  FROZEN OUT                             _Frontispiece_

    (_From a Coloured Sketch by the late_ SIR FRANK
      LOCKWOOD)

  MR. A. E. PEASE, M.P., ON “NORA CREINA,” WINNER
    OF HOUSE OF COMMONS POINT-TO-POINT RACE, 1891      9
    (_From a Photograph_)

  HOUSE OF COMMONS POINT-TO-POINT RACE                27
    (_From a Drawing by_ CUTHBERT BRADLEY)

  QUEEN MAB                                           45
    (_From a Painting_)

  YORK GIMCRACKS                                      79
    (_From a Sketch by the late_ SIR FRANK LOCKWOOD)

  MR. TOM HILL AND UNDERGRADUATE                     105
    (_Scene in a Cambridge Stable-yard, from a
     Sketch by_ C. M. NEWTON)

  MISS LAVENDER PEASE ON “ZACCHEUS”                  115
    (_From a Painting by_ MR. HEYWOOD HARDY)

  DRAG-HUNTING, CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY, 1879           127
    (_From a Sketch by_ C. M. NEWTON)

  A MEMBER OF THE GIMCRACK CLUB                      185
    (_From a Sketch by the late_ SIR FRANK
      LOCKWOOD)

  INCIDENTS WITH THE CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY
    DRAG                                             207
    (_From a Sketch by_ C. M. NEWTON)

  THE CLEVELAND FOX-HOUNDS AT EXERCISE               239
    (_From a Photograph of_ MR. HEYWOOD HARDY’S
     _Picture, A Summer’s Day in Cleveland_)

  I

  REMINISCENCES OF
  THE CAMBRIDGE DRAG
  AND THE
  HOUSE OF COMMONS
  STEEPLECHASES

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