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    THE FIELD FROM THE ARCHIVES

    Nov 11, 2021 4 minutes

    he approach of the festive season, with all its pleasures and somewhat onerous obligations, seems to take the majority of us by surprise and, in this respect, hunting people are quite the same as others. Those first six weeks of the hunting season – from 1 November to the school holidays – have been passed calmly and pleasantly. The weather has been, as often as not, mild and lovely, and there has been nothing to interfere with the pursuit of the chief business of life in the way of family obligations and duties, which the end of December will bring us, or of social

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