Robert Smith Surtees - Handley Cross (1843)

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It ar'n't that I loves the fox less, but that I loves the 'ound more.

Robert Smith Surtees

I am a sportsman all over, and to the back-bone – 'Unting is all that's worth living for – all time is lost wot is not spent in 'unting – it is like the hair we breathe – if we have it not we die – it's the sport of kings, the image of war without its guilt, and only five-and-twenty per cent of its danger.

Robert Smith Surtees

'Untin' fills my thoughts by day, and many a good run I have in my sleep. Many a dig in the ribs I gives Mrs. J. when I think they're runnin' into the warmint…No man is fit to be called a sportsman wot doesn't kick his wife out of bed on a haverage once in three weeks!

Robert Smith Surtees

It is an inwariable rule with the dealers to praise the bad points and let the good 'uns speak for themselves.

Robert Smith Surtees

'Ounds choppin' foxes in cover is more a proof of their wice.

Robert Smith Surtees