Covert-Side Sketches; or, Thoughts on Hunting Suggested by Many Days in Many Countries with Fox, Deer and Hare

J. Nevill Fitt

• Publisher: Read Country Books
• Year: 2017
• eBook ISBN:
  9781473349742
• Print ISBN:
  9781473327146

This vintage book, first published in 1879, contains a timeless guide to hunting. Based on the author's extensive experience hunting a variety of animals in many countries, this volume will be of considerable utility to modern hunting enthusiasts, and would make for a fantastic addition to collections of allied literature. Contents include: "The Popularity of the Chase at the Present Time", "On the National Utility of Hunting as Compared with Other Sports", "The Antiquity of Hunting", "The Animals Pursued in England at the Present Day", "Fox-Hunting-The Fox", etc. Many vintage books such as this are increasingly scarce and expensive. This volume is being republished now in an affordable, high-quality edition complete with a specially commissioned new introduction on the history of fox hunting.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• A Brief Introduction to Fox Hunting
• Contents
• Chapter I. The popularity of the Chase at the Present Time
• Chapter II. On the National Utility of Hunting as compared with other Sports
• Chapter III. On the National Utility of Hunting as Compared with other Sports (continued)
• Chapter IV. The Antiquity of Hunting
• Chapter V. The Animals pursued in England at the Present Day
• Chapter VI. Fox-hunting—the Fox
• Chapter VII. The Fox-hound
• Chapter VIII. Fox-hunting
• Chapter IX. The Brocklesby
• Chapter X. The Belvoir Hounds
• Chapter XI. The Quorn
• Chapter XII. The Burton
• Chapter XIII. The Cottesmore
• Chapter XIV. The Pytchley
• Chapter XV. The York and Ainsty
• Chapter XVI. The Holderness
• Chapter XVII. The Sinnington
• Chapter XVIII. The Duke of Beaufort’s Hounds
• Chapter XIX. The Tedworth
• Chapter XX. Wild Stag-hunting
• Chapter XXI. The Old Stag-hound
• Chapter XXII. The Bloodhound
• Chapter XXIII. Buck-hunting
• Chapter XXIV. The Chase of the Carted Deer
• Chapter XXV. Her Majesty’s Stag-Hounds
• Chapter XXVI. Hare-Hunting
• Chapter XXVII. The Harrier
• Chapter XXVIII. The Brookside Harriers
• Chapter XXIX. Mr. Brooks on the Bex Hill Harriers
• Chapter XXX. Otter-hunting
• Chapter XXXI. The Otter-hound
• Chapter XXXII. The Drag
• Index