SEA CAPTAIN DESCRIBING A HUNT.
J&. SKA captain ju&t ashore was invited by Wome gentl< mni to go hunting. After the sspoit was over be };nve his frieuds luir■jparticulnr account of what pastime he !had :—" Our horses beiug completely Tigged, we mann2d th-to, and the uind i>eingS.W , twenty of us being in company, away we went over the Downs. In *he time of half a waich we Bpied a hare under a lull gale; we tacked, and stood after her, coming up close ; she tacked, and we tacked, upon which tack I had like 4o ran aground, bat getting close off 1 38tood after her again, but, as luck would liave it, just about to lay her aboard, i>earing too much wind, I and my horse «Vfrßet, aud came keel upwards."
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Taranaki Herald, Volume XL, Issue 9257, 5 December 1891, Page 1 (Supplement)
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131SEA CAPTAIN DESCRIBING A HUNT. Taranaki Herald, Volume XL, Issue 9257, 5 December 1891, Page 1 (Supplement)
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