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The field book : or, Sports and pastimes of the United kingdom ; compiled from the best authorities, ancient and modern (1833)

Maxwell, W. H. (William Hamilton), 1792-1850 · London : E. Wilson · leaf 196

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he influence offashion and the changes wrought by time have, however, so obscured both sport and sports-men in this way, that neither hawk, falcon, orfalconer, are to be seen or heard of, unless inthe northern parts of the kingdom, where it is also nearly buried in oblivion Sebright —Daniel.… … No two animals can make a more nearapproach to each other than the stag and thefallow deer, and yet no two animals keepmore distinct, or avoid each other with morefixed animosity; they never herd or inter-mix together, and consequently never giverise to an intermediate race. It is even rare,unless…

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