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To: Biblebelter
You take a very high minded and fairly modern view of sport. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, sport was not something associated with gentleman.

Yeah, those fox hunts where pretty base and uncivilized. Falconers are notoriously boorish and physically abusive to their animals.
101 posted on 09/04/2007 10:56:23 AM PDT by IronKros ( The pig put foot. Grunt. Foot in what? ketchup)
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To: IronKros
Yeah, those fox hunts where pretty base and uncivilized. Falconers are notoriously boorish and physically abusive to their animals.

Although I did not directly state it, my comments were targeted toward this country in that time period. English gentleman and the English aristocracy is quite another matter. Their penchant for cruelty goes beyond animals, as a man I would not have wanted to be taken and put on one of their ships in the late 18th or early 19th century or even go to one of their all male boarding schools for gentleman as far as that matters.

107 posted on 09/04/2007 11:08:33 AM PDT by Biblebelter
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