Regency Pastimes: Hunt the Fox

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While not a unique to the Regency, hunt the fox was a popular children’s chasing game.

Hunt the Fox In this game one of the boys is permitted to run out and having law given to him that is being permitted to go to a certain distance from his comrades before they pursue him their object is to take him if possible before he can return home We have the following speech from an idle boy in The longer thou livest the more Fool thou art an old comedy written towards the close of the sixteenth century 3 And also when we play and hunt the fox I outrun all the boys in the schoole Hunt the Hare is the same pastime under a different denomi nation The Sports and Pastimes of the People of England (1830).

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