Word: hunts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Starting training early for the fox-hunting season, fifty foreseeing Freshmen shattered century-old traditions of "Ye College Yard," Harvard Yard, and whatever it may have been in the meanwhile, by staging a drag-hunt there last night with hounds from the Norfolk Hunt Club...
...three children immured in a Welsh castle at Amroth. he gives stag parties for the great at his farm at East Garston in Berkshire, in rebuilding which he hired only local people, becoming the village's chief support and eventually Master of Foxhounds of its swank Craven Hunt and president of the Hungerford Fat Stock Show. In neither of these squirely retreats did he discuss his third life as a concession-wangler among Eastern potentates whose Oriental courage and vanity genuinely attract him and whom he, like the late great T. E. Lawrence, genuinely impresses...
...otter and coon and deer were plentiful, but the only enemy foxes had to fear was man. In the swamp where the Vixen bore her litter lived one of them, an Indian trapper. No sport, he killed for his living. But he accounted for fewer foxes than the local hunt, whose master was the hard-drinking widower Cap'n, squire of a plantation falling to seed almost as swiftly as himself. Of the Vixen's litter, two died in traps, one was captured, one run to death by hounds while she was still a cub. That left only...
...full year, too, for Duncan, the Cap'n's young nephew. He had his first hunt, and was blooded (given the accolade of a dab of blood on the cheeks, from a torn bit of the killed fox). He sneaked away to cockfights, hunted rats, drank in wisdom and tall tales from his elders. He learned to distinguish the distant hounds by their baying, how to tell when they were on the right line. When the year came full circle, Duncan's story and the fox's drew nearer & nearer together...
William M. Hunt '36, who rendered Dudgeon, the butler and the radio announcer, showed that his Dunster-Funster experience has stood him in good stead...