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Boxing Day hunt meet in an English village street with hounds, mounted field in red coats, and spectators lining the road

The Boxing Day Meet

The day after Christmas is the great day in all the hunting counties," wrote Trollope. St. Stephen's Day brings out the regulars, the once-a-season followers, visiting relations in borrowed boots, and half the village. It's magnificent chaos, and not remotely about the actual hunting.

Woodcock Shooting: Two Men with three Dogs

The Last Wild Game

Ask a keeper to promise woodcock and watch the evasion begin. They arrive from Scandinavia when weather pushes them south, refuse to be managed, and preserve what most shooting has eliminated: genuine uncertainty.

Grey partridge among winter grasses in British farmland.

The Grey Partridge and What It Tells Us

The grey partridge belongs to a particular kind of English countryside – one that existed before intensive farming, before broad-spectrum pesticides, and before the landscape was asked to produce quite so much, quite so quickly.

Christmas Cards Without Leaving the House

Christmas Cards Without Leaving the House

Not everyone can make it to a London stationer before the Christmas run begins. Fortunately, several sources worth knowing have made it rather easy to order quality cards without leaving one's desk. These are not the digital print-on-demand services that clutter the internet, but rather...