THE NORTH RIDING PROJECT

If we could hook a salmon every time we made a good cast; if we could curl up the rocketing pheasant every time we pressed the trigger; if we could kill our stag every time we beaded him, there would be no pleasure and no satisfaction in such pursuits.  No sport can give a greater variety of incident than fox-hunting, or such wondrous transformation scenes.  Chance is the magic attraction of such pursuits; the element of the unknown the soul of all adventure.

Pease/Hunting, 1898