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Updated: June 20, 2025
The moon was bright, and everything was distinct and clear. I skimmed along over the snow, and William Munroe, the blacksmith, came out of his house near the foot of the common, just as I was passing. "Hello, Benny, you're up early to-day. Where are you bound for?" "Fox-hunting with Davy Fiske." "Well, he's a good one at it, and it will be a fine day."
When this sort of hunting disappeared, and improved ideas of fox-hunting came into vogue, there was nothing left for the Southern Hound to do but to hunt the otter.
Had there been nothing worse in the Old Bachelor and Double Dealer, Congreve might pass for as pure a writer as Cowper himself, who, in poems revised by so austere a censor as John Newton, calls a fox-hunting squire Nimrod, and gives to a chaplain the disrespectful name of Smug.
It is one thing to contemplate stealing a wife from her husband with George Fairfax's class there is a natural antipathy to husbands, which makes that seem a fair warfare, like fox-hunting but it is another to rob a child of its mother. Mr. Fairfax's meditations came to a standstill at this point the boy blocked the line.
He liked an attempt to baffle him; he was accustomed to it; it gave some exercise to his wits and his shrewdness. There would be no fun in fox-hunting, if Reynard yielded himself up without any effort to escape.
"Then you'll let me take care of you," he said, with a friendly smile. And she could but smile and thank him. It was not a particularly satisfactory day from a fox-hunting point of view. The weather did not improve, and the scent was misleading. They found and lost, found and lost again, and a cold drizzle setting in with the afternoon effectually cooled the ardour of even the most enthusiastic.
This was the object he had set his heart on, with a singleness of determination which was regarded with not a little contempt by his fox-hunting neighbours, who wondered greatly that a man with some of the best blood in England in his veins, should be mean enough to economize in his cellar, and reduce his stud to two old coach-horses and a hack, for the sake of riding a hobby, and playing the architect.
Thinking a clergyman a model of perfection, because he is a stout dashing fellow who plays at cricket and goes out fox-hunting; and, generally, who flies in the face of all conventionalism;
Hence it was that he sent among us so many fox-hunting and gaming parsons who read the service ill and preached drowsy and illiterate sermons. Gaming and fox-hunting, did I say? These are but charitable words to cover the real characters of those impostors in holy orders, whose doings would often bring the blush of shame to your cheeks.
Only, I've broken the big blade of my knife, and the other never was any good. The girls gave H. O. a shove, and even Oswald said, 'Shut up', for somehow we all felt we did not want to play fox-hunting any more that day. When his deadly wound was covered the fox hardly looked dead at all. 'Oh, I wish it wasn't true! Alice said.
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