Old Norris' Fox Hunting Page
This country is going to the dogs, when it should be following hounds


Cartoons from Punch 1907

 
 
 

"THE MERCIFUL MAN _______"
M.F.H. (just moving off from the Meet at his own house, "Hang it all, Sir, don't ride on the grass!"
Monsieur d'Haricot, "Your grass it vill grow again; the feet of my 'orse nevare!"

Master of Beagles, "Ho! Has our beaten hare passed you?"
Gypsy, "Never no 'are ain't passed me Mister."

THE NEW ACT
First Second Horseman, "I wish I was out of this"
Second S.H. (Irish). "Bedad, ye won't be long and it's a pound a week for life if ye'er kilt."

 
 

THE WEAKER SEX.
Lady Di (to Brown (the laziest man in the countrwho has just about made up his mind to propose ). "Can't you raise a trot? I've got to get back for a fencing lesson; and I'm going out to dinner; then I'm going on to a dance; and I've got at least eighteen miles home!" (Proposal indefinitely postponed)

A large field met The Master" (Hunting report)

THE HUNT STEEPLECHASE SEASON IN THE NORTH
Candid friend (to an aged competitor in the Farmers' Race who has just been jumped off
. "Man Sandy, ye should ha' rosined yer breeks. If it didna help ye tae ride, it might mak ye stick tae the kirk on the Sawbath!"

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