Chips, Sporting and Otherwise in Verse and Prose
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Chips, Sporting and Otherwise in Verse and Prose

  1. 230 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Chips, Sporting and Otherwise in Verse and Prose

About this book

This vintage book contains an assortment of hunting poems, anecdotes, and tips. Instructive and entertaining, this volume is highly reconnected for modern hunting enthusiasts, and would make for a fantastic addition to collections of allied literature. Contents include: "The Farmer's Cap", "Precious Moments", "Tit for Tat", "Jumpers", "A Good Hunter", "The Dispersion of the Priors Curreich Flock", "Hints to Budding Sportsmen", "'Granite'", "'Carpe Diem'", "Men who Hunt, and their Peculiarities", "A Bruiser", "Old Bob", "Cub Hunting", and more. Many vintage books such as this are increasingly scarce and expensive. We are republishing this volume now in an affordable, high-quality edition complete with a specially commissioned new introduction on the history of fox hunting.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. A Brief Introduction to Fox Hunting
  5. To The Readers of ā€œChips.ā€
  6. Index
  7. A Forward Cast
  8. The Farmer’s Cup
  9. Precious Moments
  10. Tit For Tat
  11. Jumpers
  12. A Good Hunter
  13. The Dispersion of the Priors Curbeigh Flock
  14. Hints to Budding Sportsmen
  15. ā€œGraniteā€
  16. The Horse to Buy
  17. ā€œCarpe Diemā€
  18. Men Who Hunt, And Their Peculiarities
  19. A Bruiser
  20. Old Bob
  21. Cub Hunting
  22. Two Copers
  23. The Career of a Spur
  24. Depression
  25. A Ducking
  26. A Fall
  27. A Crumpler
  28. Some Exciting Moments
  29. A Peculiar Being
  30. Farmers and Fox Hunting
  31. Old Care
  32. How they Courted
  33. Impatience
  34. Those Dentists
  35. Riding to Hounds
  36. Twice Sold
  37. Hillmorton
  38. Walking a Puppy
  39. The Best Sport on Earth
  40. On Selling Horses
  41. A Good Run, and a Good Finish
  42. Riding at Fences—Timber
  43. Sunshine and Shadow
  44. To E. M. W.
  45. Fact and Fiction
  46. ’Tis Well that we are not Transparent
  47. Patiently Strive to do Right
  48. A New Year’s Wish
  49. A Playful, Love-Lit Childhood
  50. Grey Hairs are Milestones
  51. Looking Back
  52. A Sprig of Arbor VitƦ