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HUNTING REMINISCENCES BY ALFRED E. PEASE, M.P.

Two Hundred Copies only of this Edition de Luxe have been printed, and the Type distributed.

No. 5

HUNTING REMINISCENCES

ALFRED E. PEASE, M.P.

AUTHOR OF “THE CLEVELAND HOUNDS AS A TRENCHER-FED PACK” “HORSE-BREEDING FOR FARMERS” &c.

LONDON: W. THACKER & CO. 2 CREED LANE, E.C. 1898 CALCUTTA: THACKER, SPINK & CO.

CONTENTS

PAGE I. REMINISCENCES OF THE CAMBRIDGE DRAG AND THE HOUSE OF COMMONS STEEPLECHASES 7

II. THE LIFE OF A HUNTER 43

III. HOUNDS 77

IV. HARE-HUNTING 103

V. FOX-HUNTING 125

VI. FOX-HUNTING--continued 155

VII. CUB-HUNTING 183

VIII. THE GREATEST RUN I EVER SAW 205

IX. BADGER-HUNTING 233

INDEX 255

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

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FROZEN OUT Frontispiece

(From a Coloured Sketch by the late SIR FRANK LOCKWOOD)

MR. A. E. PEASE, M.P., ON “NORA CREINA,” WINNER OF HOUSE OF COMMONS POINT-TO-POINT RACE, 1891 9 (From a Photograph)

HOUSE OF COMMONS POINT-TO-POINT RACE 27 (From a Drawing by CUTHBERT BRADLEY)

QUEEN MAB 45 (From a Painting)

YORK GIMCRACKS 79 (From a Sketch by the late SIR FRANK LOCKWOOD)