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Past versus present

WISDOM AND TRADITIONS GATHERED OVER A LIFE AT THE COAL FACE, THIS WEEK WITH LINDSAY WADDELL

When we look back on old records and either admire or slightly squirm at the size of the bags, the state of the countryside and indeed the world as whole must be taken into consideration. By that I am thinking about the supply of natural game and wildfowl, not necessarily the rights or wrongs of plundering it.

There is not the slightest doubt that our sporting predecessors had an

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