Scotch Deer-Hounds and Their Masters (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: 24 CHAPTER II. RAPID GROWTH OF DEER-FORESTS AFTER 1825 CAUSES NOBLEMEN FROM ENGLAND INTRODUCTION OF RIFLE STEPS TAKEN TO IMPROVE THE DOGS SIR E. LANDSEEU AND SilR W. SCOTT'S MAIDA ENGLISH FOREST-HOLDERS SPREAD OF FOREST SYSTEM LORD HENRY BENTINCK, COLONEL INGE, DUKE OF LEEDS, SIR ST G. GORE, EARL DUDLEY, LORD DOURO, LORD MALMESBURY, HON. 0. BERKELEY, C. ST JOHN, MR HORATIO ROSS ENGLISH GREYHOUNDS USED FOR DEER-STALKING? FOREIGN HOUNDS INTRODUCED MR A. MNEILL VIEWS OF THE SOBIESKI- STUARTS ABOUT 1832?THE PURE GLEN STRAIN NIMXOD GOT FROM GLENMORISTON LETTER FROM GLENGARRY'S OLD KEEPER ? THE COLONSAY REVIVAL ORIGIN OF THE COLONSAY STOCK ? ITS CELEBRITY ? Bl'SCAR BRAN LETTER FROM LORD COLONSAY?WEIGHTY UTTERANCES FROM HORATIO ROSS LETTERS FROM MR DONALD ROBERTSON OF MULL STIRRING WILD SPORT WITH THE DOGS?ENGLISH PEERS ? MR Scrope's CASE HIS " SUBSTITUTE " STRAINS ? THE TRUE BREED BROUGHT FORWARD IN 1838 A PLENTIFUL SUPPLY ABOUT 1842 THE KENNEL SYSTEM FAVOUR OF H.R.H. THE PRINCE CONSORT FOR THE HOUNDS CAMPBELL OF MONZIE?MONZIE DOGS, WHERE FROM. j]ROM a total here previously shown, of at most six deer-forests throughout Scotland in 1815, the number had become almost treble by the end of the subsequent ten years. About the date of 1825, last referred to in our foregoing account, nearly the whole were held by noble English occupants more or less habituated to deer - stalking, as well as familiarly versed in whatever constituted modern sportsmanship at that day. In such hands all available requisites and appointments were furnished, liberal expenditure was brought to bear on everything concerned, supervision was direct, no appliance or smallest item escaped review; the system stood on quite another footing than had subsisted under THE...