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Mrs Meredith and Hunting

from To Tasmania with Mrs Meredith

Matt Simpson
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Summary

A scratch pack of two

or three couple hounds

driving a tame imported deer

to the very verge of existence,

then, would you believe,

rescuing it for further chase!

Even a kangaroo they'll tally-ho

with all the show and pretence

of sanctified pursuit,

all underwritten by noble

and Christian worthies,

these exploits of the field

are turned into

grandiloquent narratives

by so-called correspondents

who deem it sport

to see some poor tame stag —

as was the case

a week before we came —

antlers snarling in a tree,

gralloched, dead.

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Cutting the Clouds Towards , pp. 11
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Print publication year: 1999

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