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...self-sufficient as it tries to appear, is uncomfortably aware that they order these things better in England. This popular U. S. attitude toward fox-hunting is reflected in the jolly apologias emitted from time to time by U. S. foxy grandpas. Latest view-halloo was sounded by Harry Twyford Peters, Master of the Meadow Brook Hounds. Written primarily of and for the manure set, Just Hunting is not to be mentioned in the same breath with Siegfried Sassoon's masterly Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man, but even to readers who have never seen the world from...
...shire stallion, Field, Marshal V, modeled in 1921 when he was still a prize winner. Red and sleek in Acajou marble was the magnificent champion Shorthorn bull, Bridgebank Pay master, winner of the British and Scotch championships three years, in a row. A Hereford bull champion, Twyford Fairy Boy, with grey-green coat of gold plated bronze, stood 18 in. high, 30 in. from rump to horns. There were two Lincoln rams, their fleece rendered in coarse-grained Burgandy stone. The great Middle White champion boar, Wharfedale Deliverance, beaten at last by his own daughters, showed his remote Chinese ancestry...