"Fox hunting" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... was calling for help. Finally, we made out that someone was hurt and the oxen and sled were needed to bring him down. It turned out to be a neighbour, Gould Bouton, calling, and Elihu Meeker, his uncle, who was hurt. They were fox hunting and Elihu had fired at the fox from the top of a high rock near the top of Old Clump and in his excitement had in some way slipped from the rock and fallen on the stones fifteen or twenty feet below and sustained serious injury to his side and back. With all possible speed the oxen ...
— My Boyhood • John Burroughs
... beginning of a string of reminiscences to which they all listened breathlessly. The fox hunting instinct was an inheritance in this part of the country. It had its traditions and legends ...
— Mistress Anne • Temple Bailey
... the larger part of the foregoing chapter on fox hunting, in "Collier's Weekly," brought me a number of letters containing ...
— American Adventures - A Second Trip 'Abroad at home' • Julian Street
... 3 and was admitted by a thin, grey-haired woman who had evidently been shedding tears. He found himself in a little hall decorated with many trophies of fox hunting. There were masks and brushes and several specimens of large Dartmoor foxes, who had run their last and now stood stuffed in cases hung upon ...
— The Red Redmaynes • Eden Phillpotts
... red coat and ride to the hounds fox hunting," he said. "It's great sport. Won't you take me with ...
— Laddie • Gene Stratton Porter |
