ISBN: 9781443771849

Paperback, [PU: Read Books], INTRODUCTION When time, which steals our hours away, Shall steal our pleasures too, The memory of the past shall stay And half our joys renew. Moore from earl… Mehr…

Paperback, [PU: Read Books], INTRODUCTION When time, which steals our hours away, Shall steal our pleasures too, The memory of the past shall stay And half our joys renew. Moore from earliest childhood I was brought up among horses. My parents had hunted all their lives-indeed, my mother was almost obsessed by her love of fox-hunting and in her day could hold her own across country with any woman or man. My father drove a four-in-hand in summer, my mother often handling the reins, and it was a case of horses and everything connected with them-and hunting in particular-being part of ones daily life. Stories of great hunts and people famous in the hunting world, together with the names of celebrated hounds, penetrated my brain when I was almost too young to realise the fact. I did realise, however, even as a small child, that I came of fox-hunting stock, which included a gr eat-grandfather who continued to ride hard to hounds till he was seventy, averaging four days a week It was not surprising, considering all things, that I grew up with an almost fanatical love of the chase. My first introduction to a pack of hounds was at the age of two and a half, but I cannot say that I remember it My parents were spending part of the winter in Cheshire, hunting with the South Cheshire and Sir W. W. Wynns, and being short of a horse to ride, my mother went out one day in the pony cart, taking me with her. It happened that hounds hunted a fox alongside the lane in which we were driving and it is related that I struggled to my feet on the seat of the trap screaming, Get to em, get to ern. Shortly afterwards, hounds killed their fox close to the same road and so I was told in later years I insisted on staggering to the scene of action still exclaiming, Get to em..., Sport<

ISBN: 9781443771849

INTRODUCTION When time, which steals our hours away, Shall steal our pleasures too, The memory of the past shall stay And half our joys renew. Moore from earliest childhood I was brought … Mehr…

INTRODUCTION When time, which steals our hours away, Shall steal our pleasures too, The memory of the past shall stay And half our joys renew. Moore from earliest childhood I was brought up among horses. My parents had hunted all their lives-indeed, my mother was almost obsessed by her love of fox-hunting and in her day could hold her own across country with any woman or man. My father drove a four-in-hand in summer, my mother often handling the reins, and it was a case of horses and everything connected with them-and hunting in particular-being part of ones daily life. Stories of great hunts and people famous in the hunting world, together with the names of celebrated hounds, penetrated my brain when I was almost too young to realise the fact. I did realise, however, even as a small child, that I came of fox-hunting stock, which included a gr eat-grandfather who continued to ride hard to hounds till he was seventy, averaging four days a week It was not surprising, considering all things, that I grew up with an almost fanatical love of the chase. My first introduction to a pack of hounds was at the age of two and a half, but I cannot say that I remember it My parents were spending part of the winter in Cheshire, hunting with the South Cheshire and Sir W. W. Wynns, and being short of a horse to ride, my mother went out one day in the pony cart, taking me with her. It happened that hounds hunted a fox alongside the lane in which we were driving and it is related that I struggled to my feet on the seat of the trap screaming, Get to em, get to ern. Shortly afterwards, hounds killed their fox close to the same road and so I was told in later years I insisted on staggering to the scene of action still exclaiming, Get to em... Books List_Books<

2008, ISBN: 9781443771849

[ED: Kartoniert / Broschiert], [PU: Clarke Press], Dieser Artikel ist ein Print on Demand Artikel und wird nach Ihrer Bestellung fuer Sie gedruckt. KlappentextINTRODUCTION When time, whic… Mehr…

[ED: Kartoniert / Broschiert], [PU: Clarke Press], Dieser Artikel ist ein Print on Demand Artikel und wird nach Ihrer Bestellung fuer Sie gedruckt. KlappentextINTRODUCTION When time, which steals our hours away, Shall steal our pleasures too, The memory of the past shall stay And half our joys renew. Moore, DE, [SC: 0.00], Neuware, gewerbliches Angebot, Taschenbuch, 192, [GW: 249g], Banküberweisung, PayPal<

2008, ISBN: 1443771848

Kartoniert / Broschiert SPORTS & RECREATION / General, mit Schutzumschlag neu, [PU:Clarke Press]

2008, ISBN: 1443771848

Kartoniert / Broschiert SPORTS & RECREATION / General, mit Schutzumschlag 11, [PU:Clarke Press]