Taste of fowling fit for a king
Oct 14, 2020
4 minutes
RICHARD NEGUS IS A PROFESSIONAL HEDGE LAYER AND WRITER. HE IS A KEEN WILDFOWLER AND HAS A PASSION FOR GREY PARTRIDGES
I have a memory from my years spent in Leicestershire. It is an image that has helped me as a father, determined to educate my son in the ways of the countryside. It was a time of decadence, albeit financially impoverished thanks to my ineptitude as a horse dealer.
The lovely Jacobean estate where I had my yard sat in the heart of the Quorn Hunt’s Friday country, a sea of old grass, black-hearted hedges and persevering foxes with an addiction to running in straight lines. We hosted a number of meets each season, one of the most
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