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Bart was huntsman for the lon - ber, i also received “the Daily Dozen” green Hunt, which he hunted from the with gift ideas from the bookstore. one of longreen kennels off stout road. the the rare books that was featured was a mueller children tell how Faulker came in - William Faulkner signed, limited edition cognito to the hunt, never identified by his copy of Notes On A Horse Thief . it’s a real name. He slept on the couch at the classic that i thought was worth writing mueller’s house on weekends when he about. this edition of Notes On A Horse came to foxhunt. Thief is valued at $1,200. in the book, Longreen: 25 Years of Notes On A Horse Thief was printed on Horse Sports in West Tennessee (1982), (l-r) William Faulkner and Farming - november 4, 1950 by the levee Press of there is an entry on William Faulkner, ton (va.) huntsman Grover vandeven - greenville, mississippi, the same year which reads in part (pp. 24-26): der (George Barkley photo) Faulkner received his nobel Prize in lit - “From the beginning, the thing about erature, which was actually awarded in him that impressed me most was the ex - across stout road, through all the big 1949. the Prize was awarded to Faulkner tives, police, insurance adjusters, and oth - traordinary courtesy and gentleness of his white fences of Wildwood, between the “for his powerful and artistically unique ers eager for his apprehension. manner of speaking; the softest masculine tennis courts and out the other side. the contribution to the modern american the chase ends in a small missouri voice i ever heard, which seemed remark - pace was terrific and at this point only novel.” town, where the escape of the english able coming from the powerful creator of three riders were still up with the hounds – this book/novella is a postscript to his groom is effectuated as a tribute from the yoknapatawpha county. and one of them was William Faulkner.” 1948 novel, Intruder in the Dust , about community to the groom’s efforts to have “He was a man of very small stature. there is also a copy of a typed letter racial injustice and the larger role of race the horse serve his natural purpose – rac - standing before the fire in his faithful hunt from Faulkner, dated 3 may, 1961 to mrs. relations in a small town in mississippi in ing – instead of imprisoning him in a sta - jacket, so lovingly patched and repatched Winslow chapman, who was hunt secre - the 1940s. Notes On A Horse Thief was ble, retired at stud. the community also at the elbows, he was quite of a size with tary at the time. in part, the letter reads: later revised and incorporated into A Fable saves the black preacher/stable worker the teenagers who surrounded him. With “thank you for the chance to subscribe (1954), which won the Pulitzer Prize and from the law as a reward for his role in the them he was completely at home and they and do my bit to support fox hunting in our the national Book award. A Fable takes escapades, thus reversing the basic situa - accepted him as one of their very own, rid - country; i would want to subscribe even if place in France during World War i and tion in Intruder in the Dust . ing and chatting with him on equal terms. i didn’t hunt. stretches through the course of one week only once did i ever see him draw back, “i leave for va. sunday, will be back in in 1918. when, during a protracted check, they pro - July, when i hope you will bring the Notes On A Horse Thief is set in april posed to liven things up with a quick gal - hounds and mounts down here [oxford, 1914, when a famous racehorse has his leg lop over some nearby jumps. miss.]. We can do some night hill-topping irreparably injured in a train wreck. His “’i am too old,’ Faulkner said, ‘to take with ears and see how the fox will run, and english groom takes advantage of the sit - a jump unless there is a fox on the other ride the country by day and see where to uation and steals the horse, with the aid of side.’” open it up. i suggested this to mr. ander - an itinerant black preacher/stableman and the rest of the entry tells about “one af - son last month; will communicate with his grandson. the three nurse and care for ternoon when a very devious fox suddenly him as soon as i get back from va.” the horse and bring him back to health suf - changed tactics and went away up the Field master at the time, “andy” an - ficiently to be raced – and win – at small wide open, clipped right-of-way under the derson is credited with bringing William tracks in out-of-the-way county seats and tva power line, with the pack in full cry Faulkner to the longreen hunt.