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The foxhunting country of R.S. Surtees.(Literature)
The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable!
--Oscar Wilde
ATTITUDES HAVE HARDENED and polarised somewhat since Oscar Wilde's good-natured snipe the eccentricities of the hunting classes and now, with the British government bent on banning it and 400,000 protesters descending on London, foxhunting is once again in the forefront of the public mind. Before that decision is made, it may be amusing and instructive to look back to a time when attitudes were very different, a time when foxhunting was deemed an indispensable artefact of civilisation and positively a country gentleman's duty, promoting a ...
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