Horse & Hound

'I'm mellowing with age'

A SEASONED and well-respected professional huntsman, whom Adam knew when he was young, once offered him some pearls of wisdom about wives.

“You don’t want one that hunts,” he said forcibly. In his view, a wife who was out hunting and “messing about with horses”, as he put it, was neglecting

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