My late husband Tony Harvey was Master of the Easton Harriers from 1963 to 1990.  During the years Tony and I had together we travelled extensively on “hunting holidays” throughout England & Wales, France and Portugal.  Tony was always watching hounds working wherever we were and discussing the methods and techniques of those who hunted them, spotting how hounds worked on different quarry in various weathers and terrains.  With so much accumulated knowledge, it made him a brilliant teacher. Urging Tony to form his hunting diaries into a book (not a Penny in The Post) was not difficult, as it enabled him to relive and share with friends old and new his thirty years as Master /Huntsman .
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