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- Title: Sporting Literature and Social Consciousness: Mr. Facey Romford's Hounds; Or, New Blood in Old Kennels (Essay)
- Author : Aethlon: The Journal of Sport Literature
- Release Date : January 22, 2006
- Genre: Reference,Books,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 377 KB
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In his "Noctes Nimrodianae" for January 1833, "Nimrod" discusses the value of underbred hounds with the "Editor" of the New Sporting Magazine: The magazine's "Editor," a mask for R.S. Surtees, feigns surprise at "Nimrod's" observation: "But would you breed from Vulcan,--with his chitterlings throat, his elbows out, and his yellow-pied sides?" The "Editor's" feigned astonishment surely mirrors our own, for, like Surtees, we know Nimrod's character too well to suppose his query on Vulcan's worth sincere. We recall, for instance, his comments on Osbaldeston's kennel in his observations on Leicestershire: "Mr. Osbaldeston is much of my opinion respecting the use or rather the necessity of blood, to ensure hounds doing well in the field.... [for] hounds will never be slack with a good scent if they are well bred" (Hunting Reminiscences 33). The discrepancy between these remarks and his answer to the New Sporting Magazine's "Editor" might strike readers as discordant, for in the latter he states: "[t]o be sure I would [breed from Vulcan]; I would have his blood without his form. I would pick the Venus of my kennel, provided she was a true line hunting bitch; if her produce was not quite to my eye, I would cross them again, with the best and the handsomest hound in my pack, but I would not lose sight of Vulcan's good nose" (190). Then again, perhaps Surtees intends readers to linger on the discord, to weigh both sides of the "blood" issue, as it were, to decide which resonates with greater truth. For the longer we ponder the issue, the less likely we are to deny "Vulcan's good nose."
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