The Badminton Magazine 1896-02: Vol 2 Iss 7 (1896)
Longman, Green & Co · leaf 11
154 THE BADMINTON MAGAZINE but they may wear him out, and run into him at midday or even in the afternoon, for the tenacity and hardiness and scenting powers of the Colonel’s hounds are remarkable if they have little speed. Old Ephraim, whose powers of sporting narrative have been the delight of… … FILLING EARTH, AIR, AND SKY WITH ITS STRENUOUS BLASTS office, whence he fetches the Colonel’s letters daily, has some most fearsome stories of long runs in the days of old. That celebrated hunt which took place in Christmas week 1831, when ‘the Jedge, Marse’ Roberts’ pa, kep’ de hounds,’ is known…
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