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D'ye ken John Peel? - Lyrics and history of this famous song and 'Horn of the Hunter'. Listen to the melody on Windows Media Player.
John Peel: The Man and the Song - A short history by Steve Bulman from Cumbria, UK.
Surtees, Mr Sponge's Sporting Tour - The complete text (1852) of a novel revolving around foxhunting.
Trollope, Hunting Sketches - The complete text (1865) of a series of essays on the topic of foxhunting.
Hunting Poetry - Selection of poems about the fox and foxhunting by WB Yeats, Rudyard Kipling, Adam Lindsay Gordon, Will H Ogilvie, Beatrice Holden, Phil Stevenson, Miss M. Wynter, D.W. Nash, Whyte-Melville and John Masefield.
Baden-Powell, Lessons from the Varsity of Life - Comments on importance of fox-hunting.
Hughes, Branston`s Pickles - The Diary of an English Hunting Horse - Foxhunting stories (1995-present) from the point of view of the horse. Includes pictures of the "author" and his friends, including Peter Hughes of Bath, Somerset.
Kipling, Fox-hunting: The Fox Meditates - Poem by Rudyard Kipling.
Exmoor Oral History Archive: Tom Yandle (18 October 2001) - Summary of his oral history recordings about his life of hunting including his chairmanship of the Devon and Somerset Staghounds and the Masters of Deer Hounds Association. He was also High Sheriff of Somerset and on both the National Trust and National Park Committees.
Sassoon, The Old Huntsman - Poem by Siegfried Sassoon from his book of poetry The Old Huntsman and Other Poems (1918).
Fox-hunting on the Findon Downs - History and stories from 1675 to the present, with many photographs. Part of a site devoted to the historical record of life in Findon, West Sussex, UK.
The Toll Gate: Fox-Hunting - Background information and historical notes about foxhunting as used in Georgette Heyer's novel The Toll Gate, written in 1953 and set in 1817.
Did ye ken John Peel wid his cwote sae grey? - In the Cumbrian dialect, taken from original manuscript.
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. - Albert Einstein A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that. -- Shakespeare, William I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been. -- Wayne Gretzky People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get what they want. -- David Mamet "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) Art, Literature and Music By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve hours a day. -- ROBERT FROST Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five isn't bad. -- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler. -- Albert Einstein Art, Literature and Music Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending. -- Anonymous Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep. -- Albert Camus "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home. - Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms Art, Literature and Music Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought. -- Robert Browning Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other. -- W. Somerset Maugham I could prove God statistically. -- George Gallup Art, Literature and Music I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up. -- Tom Lehrer I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by. -- Douglas Adams Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough. -- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair. -- Jonathan S. Haas Art, Literature and Music Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married. -- George Bernard Shaw "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) Art, Literature and Music We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. -- Aristotle ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge. -- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that. -- Bill Parcels, New Engla "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another. -- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 Art, Literature and Music Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive. -- Anaïs Nin Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the custom of shaving. -- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) Art, Literature and Music "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not even talking about the programs). -- Nicholas Negroponte I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think. -- Socrates The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool. -- Voltaire Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. - Antoine de Saint Exupery Art, Literature and Music You cannot create experience. You must undergo it. -- Albert Camus Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it. -- Josephus Daniels Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn. -- Harriet Beecher Stowe Art, Literature and Music Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever. -- Napoleon Bonaparte "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate. -- Thomas Jones Assassins! -- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the second, "For my best friend." -- Anonymous Art, Literature and Music A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes. -- Joseph Addison "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) A person starts to live when he can live outside himself. -- Albert Einstein Art, Literature and Music Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love. -- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction. -- John Cage "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist. -- Epicurus The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children. -- Clarence Darrow Art, Literature and Music Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen. -- Richard Rosen "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) Art, Literature and Music It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned. -- Leslie Jeanne Sahler A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education. -- George Bernard Shaw "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on! -- Rory Bremner When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped. -- Marcel Achard Art, Literature and Music Marriage is a rest period between romances. If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my future crimes. -- Prince Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET? -- Michael Meissner Art, Literature and Music There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself. -- Johann Sebastian Bach "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong. - Buckminster "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) Art, Literature and Music Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives. -- John Stuart Mill An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't. -- Sacha Guitry I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. -- Mark Twain Art, Literature and Music Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great. -- Anonymous "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me. -- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne Trust everybody, but cut the cards. -- Finley Peter Dunne Few things are harder to put up with than a good example. - Mark Twain Art, Literature and Music "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that M&Ms really do melt in your hand... -- Peter Oakley The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep. - Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live Art, Literature and Music The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it." -- Jerry Seinfeld "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like what you are getting. -- Anonymous Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder. -- George Washington Art, Literature and Music To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't everythin You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there. -- Yogi Berra "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I Art, Literature and Music
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