Regency Pastimes: A Comedic Caution for Hunting Season

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I needed a laugh, and Pierce Egan delivered:

CAUTIONS FOR THE FIRST OF SEPTEMBER 1 We recommend all persons who have dogs of any kind whether bull dogs mastiffs grey hounds pug dogs lap dogs or mongrels to keep them at home as the dogstealers are prowling about to provide poin ters for the cockney sportsmen to morrow 2 Ladies who have parrots or singing birds of any kind to be cautious of hanging them out of their win dows to morrow as they may probably be considered as fair game by the sporting parties 3 It would be adviseable also to padlock the doors of hen houses as poultry will stand in a very dangerous predicament throughout the whole of to morrow the first of September having become as hostile to cocks în particular as Shrove Tuesday was at a former pe riod 4 The cowkeepers are recommended to have an ex traordinary watch over their cattle as an accidental shot though it would not kill a cow might lame or blind it 5 It is earnestly hoped that all persons will be cau tious of walking in the vicinity of town and particu larly near hedges in the early part of the day as on the first of last September a lady walking under an umbrella during a shower of rain in Pancras fields
was shot at by a sportsman from the city who took her for a green goose 6 All persons who drive out to morrow in gigs and one horse chairs are desired to put up the heads and ladies and gentlemen who take airing in their carriages are particularly requested to keep up the blinds for fear of accidents 7 Parents are also most seriously charged to pre vent their children from bathing to morrow for fear they should be taken for water fowl JONATHAN SAVE ALL Signed August 31 Secretary Egan, P. (1807). Sporting Anecdotes: Original and Select; Including Characteristic Sketches of Eminent Persons who Have Appeared on the Turf: with an Interesting Selection of the Most Extraordinary Events which Have Transpired in the Sporting World; a Correct Description of the Animals of Chase; and of Every Other Subject Connected with the Various Diversions of the Field. United Kingdom: Albion Press printed, for J. Cundee and J. Harris.

 

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