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HUNTING
Contemporary Review, May, 2000 by Allan Ramsay
Nor can one simply write off the pageantry. Substitute instead, a group of men, dressed in camouflage jackets and armed with shotguns, accompanied by terriers, setting out on a Saturday morning to shoot foxes. Which is likely to disturb Mrs Smith, in the country for a quiet weekend of walking, the more? Perhaps, to make her discomfiture complete one should whisper in her ear that the time to kill foxes is when the vixen is carrying cubs, or by stopping the earth and gassing them new born, when the primroses are out. Close season? Come, come Mrs Smith: this is business. We have our contract quota to fulfil: the fox observes none where your Christmas turkey is concerned. And with the pageantry will go much literature and verse and song, not much of it good perhaps, but how much is anything that is -- or was once -- popular, good in the lit:crit sense? Only cricket can be said to rival hunting in terms of its contribution to our literature.
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On 11 November 1919, the first Armistice after the Great War, the Devon and Somerset Staghounds met as usual. Before leaving to draw the first covert of the day, at 11 o'clock, they observed the two minutes silence, in common with the rest of the country. The hounds were gathered up and the field turned to face eastwards, towards France and Flanders and beyond, towards Gallipoli and Mesopotamia where so many of their members had died. Hounds, keen to get off, are normally restless on such moments, the young ones always trotting off to inspect a child or investigate something; the more experienced ones sitting around fidgeting and keyed up. But everyone noticed how, on this occasion, they stood quite still, even the youngest, their sterns gently waving in the bright morning air, looking towards the same distant battlefields. For Mr Everard, the historian of the hunt, it was all too much to bear and he turned for home. 'There are too many ghosts' he said. It will take more than legislation to exorcise them.
Sir Allan Ramsay is a former British Ambassador to Morocco.
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