The Sporting Dictionary and Rural Repository, Volume 2 (of 2): Of General Information upon Every Subject Appertaining to the Sports of the FieldTaplin, William
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The Sporting Dictionary and Rural Repository, Volume 2 (of 2): Of General Information upon Every Subject Appertaining to the Sports of the Field
Taplin, William
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QUITTOR-BONE—is a protrusive enlargement upon some part of the CORONET
of a HORSE, originating in a ligamentary distortion, fibrous rupture, or
internal injury; which continuing to encrease in size to the utmost
distention of the integument, it then gradually acquires a certain
degree of callosity, and lastly, OSSIFICATION, from whence is derived
its present denomination. Custom has established the alternatives of
BLISTERING or FIRING, and they not unfrequently succeed each other. A
little reflection will, however, determine whether it is not sometimes
better
"To bear those ills we have,
"Than fly to others that we know not of."
R.
RABBIT—is the well-known animal, bearing some similitude to the HARE in
its formation, but no proportional excellence as a luxury for the table.
Rabbits are of two kinds, the wild, and domestic; the latter of which
are bred in hutches exceedingly tame, and in a sporting view lay claim
to no consideration. The wild rabbits are much inferior in size, and
many shades lighter in the colour of their fur, than the hare, to whom
they have a natural and an invincible aversion; which, in fact, seems to
be mutual, as they are but rarely found in the purlieus of each other.
The rabbit, in its wild and uncultivated state, (not part of, or
appertaining to a warren,) is thought of but very little intrinsic
value, and is killed or taken as a matter of public right, by
individuals of every class who happen to find them; not being included
in the late acts of parliament for the PRESERVATION of the GAME;
although they are mentioned as _conies_ in some of the former records,
which, though unrepealed, are seldom resorted to for legal information.
Rabbits in a WARREN are supposed the most prolific and profitable animal
of any that contributes to human subsistence: these warrens are common
in many parts of the kingdom, but more particularly in Yorkshire,
Lincolnshire, Norfolk, Suffolk, and Cambridgeshire, by the three last of
which counties the Metropolis is supplied for its almost infinite
consumption. The scent of a rabbit is exceedingly _faint_ in comparison
with the HARE, FOX, or FALLOW DEER; they, however, by jumping up
suddenly, frequently lead hounds a little astray, but cannot stand long
before them.
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