Oscar WILDE (35) described hunting as THE UNSPEAKABLE IN FULL PURSUIT OF THE UNEATABLE (1A, 14, 30, 42), and the huntsmen are John PEEL (12), JORROCKS (R.S. Surtees) (19) and Siegfried SASSOON (Memoirs of a Foxhunting Man) (28).
First prize Heather Weeks, Hove, East Sussex
Runners-up Hilda Ball, Belfast; Hugh Thomas, Ixworth, Suffolk
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