Hounds, County Limmerick, Ireland.
Link and note that there are 19 segments in the series.
Thanks to Sarah B. in Italy for the links!
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In segment two, the narrator starts:
This is the southwest of Ireland. Some generations back, the people in this part of the world discovered a splendid therapy for their lunatics, which is far more effective and much cheaper than locking them up in asylum. It is called 'fox hunting.'"
Thanks to Sarah B. in Italy for the links!
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2 comments:
Why do they count in couples?
It's a stupid affectation, like a sailor calling a rope a "rode".
The origin is that in training two hounds were clipped together by use of couples (a short section of chain linked to collars). This is still done with hounds (and sometime with terriers in the field as well), but it does not explain the counting affectation.
Of course fancy language is what divides the world, eh? Why call the hinge on a rudder a hinge when you can call it a gungeon and pintle, and look like you have the Secret Knowledge while doing it.
Fancy talk is used a lot in dog training too, also fox hunting, medicine, and pretty much everything else where it's more jelly than biscuit. All nonsense and status-bumping if you ask me. Thhe world is not improved by calling the front of the boat a bow and the back a stern -- it's just verbal fencing to keep people out and to build status.
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