The Wensleydale Hounds Past and Present 1775-1907 - With Numerous Anecdotes, Incidents, and Illustrations of Well-Known Dalesmen

F. Chapman

• Publisher: Read Country Books
• Year: 2017
• eBook ISBN:
  9781473338968
• Print ISBN:
  9781473327788
• Subtopic: British History

This vintage book contains a detailed history of the "Wensleydale Hounds", a nineteenth-century English hunting group. With details of notable members and extensive descriptions of their hunts, this volume will appeal to those with an interest in the history of hunting in England, and would make for a fantastic addition to collections of allied literature. Contents include: Contents include: "Mr. John Chapman, First Master of the Wensleydale Hounds", "The Earliest Record and History of the Pack", "Two Good Runs-Sedbergh; and the Bagsmen", "First Meet of the Season-A Few Curious Incidents-Hare Hunting Fifty Years Ago-Another Good Run in the Early Fifties", etc. 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. Originally published in 1907.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• A Brief Introduction to Fox Hunting
• Dedication
• Author’s Preface
• Contents
• List of Illustrations
• I. Mr. John Chapman, First Master of the Wensleydale Hounds
• II. The Earliest Record and History of the Pack
• III. Two Good Runs—Sedbergh; and The Bagsman
• IV. First Meet of the Season—A Few Curious Incidents—Hare Hunting Fifty Years Ago—Another Good Run in the Early Fifties
• V. List of Hounds and Masters in Wensleydale from 1775 to 1907—Old Letters and Correspondence—Cost of Hunt—Extract from Diary of the late Christopher Topham, Esq.
• VI. Plucky Huntsman — Hound Trails — Song: “The Pride of the Pack”
• VII. A Mouse Story—John of Cautley
• VIII. Otter Hunting
• IX. Shooting of the Hound “Cloudy”—A Deer Hunt—Hare Hunting; a Good Quest and Run
• X. Auld Jack: His Dining at Simpson’s in the Strand, when he mistook the Waiters for Parsons; his Dinner with a “Suffolkshire” Man; and his bewilderment at the Alhambra
• XI. A Good Run in Snow—Interesting Days with the Wensleydale Hounds
• XII. John Peel, and Song — A Few Well-known Good Hounds
• XIII. Interesting Incidents on a Grouse Moor
• XIV. A most excellent Long Run with a Fox in the Early Fifties—A Good Hunt after a Smart Drag
• XV. Chapter of Incidents
• XVI. Another Eventful day when the Author was a Schoolboy at Sedbergh—A Story of Jack Vestrys
• XVII. A Word on Moorland Hunting
• XVIII. Mr. Scrope’s Hounds and a Good Run—Sheep Worrying
• XIX. The late Lord Bolton’s Harriers, with Extracts from his Diary
• XX. Mr. Bruere’s and Mr. Fitz Ray’s Harriers—Hound Trail—“A Memory of September 7th, 1881”
• XXI. Two Amusing Stories of Sporting Parsons
• XXII. A Red Letter Day in Wensleydale
• XXIII. Present Day—A Singular Coincidence and an Excellent Run with a Hare—Incidents at Wimbledon—Song of the Wensleydale Hunt—A few Points to be observed on the Working of Hounds
• XXIV. Conclusion