No Hunting? A Story Of The Hunting Fields And A Vision Of What The Future Holds For Sport With Dog And Gun

NO HUNTING A Story of the Hunting Fields and a Vision of What the Future Holds for Sport with Dog and Gun. BY HORACE LYTLE - CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE FOREWORD xi PROLOGUE xiii I A NEW FIELD TRIAL FAN, 1 II THE ENDURANCE RACE, 35 III THE TRAILER ., 57 IV THE MEETING,88 V HEADED HOME,119 VI THE PARTING 138 VII IMPENDING DISASTER 155 VIII TIGHTENING BELTS 175 IX LEGAL ACTION 200 X THE TESTIMONY 227 XI ONE WAY TO WIN 249 ILLUSTRATIONS HORACE LYTLE AND SMADA BYRD Frontispiece FACING PAGE YOU MAY FLUSH YOUR BIRDS, MR. MARSH . 52 SHE HAD BEATEN HIM TO ONE OUT OF THREE BEVIES ON HIS OWN TRAINING GROUND ... 82 THEY WOULD GO TO THE FIELDS EARLY AND RE TURN LATE 126 KlLLARNEY MlST 178 AND THAT WAS KlLLARNEY MlST S REWARD. FOR HER THAT WAS ENOUGH 228 FOREWORD THERE have been vast changes in Amer ica since those first sturdy adventurers began their series of landings on our Eastern shores. They found a wilderness, peopled by wild life and a scattering of savages peaceful enough Red Men at first, though not so later. Hunting, was always indulged in. It meant meat The pioneers thus provided for their families. Later, as the Colonies grew, men of the Washington type took to the chase as their recreation. These were the gentlemen hunters. Later still, we came to Frank Foresters day. He had the vision of another dawn but it was indistinct and very hazy. Yet something told him that the old ways could not go on indefinitely. He deplored shoot ing for the bag and the brag. Game was to be had in abundance and the supply seemed inexhaustible. But some subtle sixth sense whispered to Forester that all was not well xi FOREWORD that we must some day surely face the reckon ing. And that day of reckoning is before usnow. It is here and we are living in it We of today and our sons of tomorrow have the problems to face and to solve. These problems involve the answer as to whether sports afield with dog and gun are destined to endure or doomed to die. Americans are sport-loving people. The thrill of the hunt the lure of autumn days lies deep in most of us. The right to it is a heritage. But the answer to its future has not yet been written. In the following pages we are sincerely seeking to find that answer. How correctly it is visioned and interpreted remains to be seen. THE AUTHOR. xii