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Robert Smith Surtees

(Surtees, Robert Smith, 1805-1864)

 Identifier: cu31924104002419 (find matches) Title: North-country sketches, notes, essays and reviews .. Year: 1893 (1890s) Authors: Neasham, George Bewick, John, 1760-1795 Bewick, Thomas, 1753-1828 Wordsworth Collection Subjects: Publisher: Durham, Printed for the author by T. Caldcleugh Contributing Library: Cornell University Library Digitizing Sponsor: MSN View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: CHAPTER XIII.————————HUNTING AND COURSING—————————Early Hunters.— Robert Smith Surtees.— Hard Riders in the NorthDurham Hunt.— Mr. Taylor-Smith.— Coroner Favell.— SquireBaker.— The Braes of Derwent.— The Raby Pack.— Hardwick.—The Russells.— A Hunting Diary. — At a Coursing- Meeting.FROM the remotest ages of the world, man has assumed aright to appropriate to himself the beasts of the field,this right in all probability having been founded on thewords of the first chapter of Genesis, where power is givento man over every living thing. Nimrod, the third indescent from Noah, was a great hunter.He taught to turn the hare, to bay the deer,And wheel the courser in his mad career.Saul perhaps hunted partridges in the mountains, andSamson must have been addicted to the pleasures of thechase, for he it was that conceived the novel idea of tyingfire-brands to the tails of foxes which he had caught andletting them loose among the standing corn of thePhilistines. If we accept less reliable authority, Polluxwas the first trainer of dogs, while his twin brother.Castor, was the first who broke and trained horses.Alexander the Great kept a kennel, and had a favouriteold dog with a nose as keen as his own sword. Xenophon,the celebrated Athenian general and philosopher, wrote abook on sport. He was of opinion that it habituated mento cold, heat, and fatigue, that it kindled courage, elevatedthe soul and invigorated the body, and rendered the sensesmore acute ; that it retarded the stiffening effects of oldage, and that the pleasure it afforded was a sovereignremedy against all mental uneasiness. The North-countrypitman who thinks that there is no property in game takeshis views from the jurisprudence of the Romans, whoestablished it as a maxim that all wild animals were the Text Appearing After Image: C. E. LaytdonR. S. Surtees Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.
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Robert Smith Surtees (17 May 1805 – 16 March 1864) was an English editor, novelist and sporting writer, widely known as R. S. Surtees. He was the second son of Anthony Surtees of Hamsterley Hall, a member of an old County Durham family. He is remembered for his invented character of Jorrocks, a vulgar but good-natured sporting cockney grocer. (From Wikipedia)

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