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With a Foreword by Nash Buckingham. Illustrations and decorations by Fred F. McCaleb. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, (1938). Tall octavo, gilt-stamped cloth fabrikoid boards. 59 pages. Deluxe Edition, with an original signed etching frontispiece by Fred McCaleb. foxed, Limited to 265 copies signed by Henry P. Davis and C. T. Davis. A great foxhunting story by Judge Marcellus L. Davis, of Dardanville, Arkansas. Judge Davis was the American consul general to the British West Indies during the Cleveland administration and one time judge of the fifth judicial circuit in Arkansas. He was a hunter and a horseman for the best part of 73 years until increasing settlement, wire fencing, and deforestation put an end to foxhunting in the Ozarks. This book concludes with two stories by Judge Davis's sons. |
