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    Mr. Punch in the Hunting Field
    Mr. Punch in the Hunting Field
    Mr. Punch in the Hunting Field
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    Mr. Punch in the Hunting Field

    By Various Various, John Alexander Hammerton, others and John Leech

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 27, 2013
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      Mr. Punch in the Hunting Field - Various Various

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      Title: Mr. Punch in the Hunting Field

      Author: Various

      Editor: J. A. Hammerton

      Illustrator: John Leech and others

      Release Date: March 15, 2012 [EBook #39160]

      Language: English

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      MR. PUNCH IN THE HUNTING FIELD

      PUNCH LIBRARY OF HUMOUR

      Edited by J. A. HAMMERTON

      Designed to provide in a series of volumes, each complete in itself, the cream of our national humour, contributed by the masters of comic draughtsmanship and the leading wits of the age to Punch, from its beginning in 1841 to the present day.

      [Illustration]

      * * * * *

      [Illustration: DISILLUSIONED

      Awful predicament of young Fitz-Brown, who, having undertaken to see a young lady safely home after a day with the Seaborough Harriers, has lost his way, and has climbed up what he takes to be a sign-post.]

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      MR. PUNCH IN THE HUNTING FIELD

      AS PICTURED BY JOHN LEECH, CHARLES KEENE, PHIL MAY, RANDOLPH CALDECOTT, L. RAVEN-HILL, G. D. ARMOUR, G. H. JALLAND, ARTHUR HOPKINS, REGINALD CLEAVER, CECIL ALDIN, TOM BROWNE, W. L. HODGSON AND OTHERS.

      [Illustration]

      WITH 173 ILLUSTRATIONS

      PUBLISHED BY ARRANGEMENT WITH THE PROPRIETORS OF PUNCH

      THE EDUCATIONAL BOOK CO. LTD.

      * * * * *

      PUNCH LIBRARY OF HUMOUR

      Twenty-five volumes, crown 8vo, 192 pages fully illustrated

      LIFE IN LONDON COUNTRY LIFE IN THE HIGHLANDS SCOTTISH HUMOUR IRISH HUMOUR COCKNEY HUMOUR IN SOCIETY AFTER DINNER STORIES IN BOHEMIA AT THE PLAY MR. PUNCH AT HOME ON THE CONTINONG RAILWAY BOOK AT THE SEASIDE MR. PUNCH AFLOAT IN THE HUNTING FIELD MR. PUNCH ON TOUR WITH ROD AND GUN MR. PUNCH AWHEEL BOOK OF SPORTS GOLF STORIES IN WIG AND GOWN ON THE WARPATH BOOK OF LOVE WITH THE CHILDREN

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      EDITOR'S NOTE

      [Illustration]

      From his earliest days MR. PUNCH has been an enthusiast for the Hunting Field. But in this he has only been the faithful recorder of the manners of his countrymen, as there is no sport more redolent of Merrie England than that of the Horse and Hound. At no time in MR. PUNCH'S history has he been without an artist who has specialised in the humours of the hunt. First it was the inimitable Leech, some of whose drawings find a place in the present collection, and then the mantle of the sporting artist would seem to have descended to feminine shoulders, as Miss Bowers (Mrs. Bowers-Edwards) wore it for some ten years after 1866. That lady is also represented in the present work, at pages 49 and 111. Later came Mr. G. H. Jalland, many of whose drawings we have chosen for inclusion here. Perhaps the most popular of his hunting jokes was that of the Frenchman exclaiming, "Stop ze chasse! I tomble, I faloff! Stop ze fox!!!" (see page 141). To-day, of course, it is Mr. G. D. Armour whose pencil is devoted chiefly to illustrating the humorous side of hunting; but now, as formerly, most of the eminent artists whose work lies usually in other fields, delight at times to find a subject associated with the hunt. Thus we are able to present examples of Mr. Cecil Aldin and Mr. Raven-Hill in sportive mood, while such celebrities of the past as Randolph Caldecott and Phil May are here drawn upon for the enriching of this, the first book of hunting humour compiled from the abundant chronicles of MR. PUNCH.

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      [Illustration: 'ARRY OUT WITH THE 'OUNDS]

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      MR. PUNCH IN THE HUNTING FIELD

      THE HUNTING SEASON

      (By Jorrocks Junior)

          The season for hunting I see has begun,

          So adieu for a time to my rod and my gun;

          And ho! for the fox, be he wild or in bag,

          As I follow the chase on my high-mettled nag.

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