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- Summary of his oral history recordings about his life of hunting including his chairmanship of the Devon and Somerset Staghounds and the Masters of Deer Hounds Association. He was also High Sheriff of Somerset and on both the National Trust and National P
- In the Cumbrian dialect, taken from original manuscript.
- Poem by Rudyard Kipling reflecting on the history of fox hunting in England.
- Lyrics and history of this famous song and 'Horn of the Hunter'. Listen to the melody on Windows Media Player.
- A short history by Steve Bulman from Cumbria, UK.
- Poem by Siegfried Sassoon from his book of poetry The Old Huntsman and Other Poems (1918).
- Comments on importance of fox-hunting.
- Selection of poems about the fox and foxhunting by WB Yeats, Rudyard Kipling, Adam Lindsay Gordon, Will H Ogilvie, Beatrice Holden, Phil Stevenson, Miss M. Wynter, D.W. Nash, Whyte-Melville and John Masefield.
- Foxhunting stories (1995-present) from the point of view of the horse. Includes pictures of the "author" and his friends, including Peter Hughes of Bath, Somerset.
- Background information and historical notes about foxhunting as used in Georgette Heyer's novel The Toll Gate, written in 1953 and set in 1817.
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