In my early days as editor of the Field, I read an article submitted by one of the magazine’s venerable hunting correspondents
In my early days as editor of the Field, I read an article submitted by one of the magazine’s venerable hunting correspondents — the subject was harehunting and a day out with, I think, the Cambridgeshire Harriers — which mentioned that, in the course of the chase, ‘puss clapped’.

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