The Badminton Magazine of Sports and Pasttimes 1895-08: Vol 1 Iss 1 (1895)
Longman, Green & Co · leaf 106
y our ancestors. It is difficult at the present day to find anything to hunt, and we have therefore very strict rules, which, when observed, give the quarry a fair chance of escape. But our sporting fore- fathers wanted to kill, and to kill as many deer and as great a number of foxes as possible.… … No. 7.—HUNTING THE STAG Engraved by NICOLAAS DI BRUYN, 1594, from an old Dutch picture also doubtless intended for a cub, though it more nearly resembles a large cat. It must, moreover, be borne in mind that the covers were large, the horses and hounds slow, and the best weapons for slaughter…
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