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Excerpt from Hunting Recollections, Vol. 2 Who amongst us does not know the trials attend ing the beginning of a fresh season. The first time you ride after months of rest is a species of torture unknown to the general public. As a rule, the boots which were so comfortable at the end of the season have been put in thorough repair. They are so hard and stiff you can scarcely draw them on, and when you endeavour to walk downstairs, you feel like a cat in walnut shells. The day is in all probability broiling hot. You cannot even think of your usual attire except with abject horror, and you array yourself (i now have especially women in my mind) in kind of nondescript garments, starting with a straw hat with an elastic which has received no attention during the interregnum and looks all right but is useless. You have forgotten how to arrange your tie with that exactitude for which you were famed, having taken twice your usual time to dress you are ready to start - on a mountain of flesh, something like a badly drawn cow. How different to the animal when you dis mounted after the last day of the season - all spring and muscle, treading as though going on air - a trifle full. Perhaps. The mountain moves off with shoes which have only recently been put on, and you know at once your horse feels very much the same as yourself in well repaired boots. The horse itself is a mixture of sloth and Spirits - very unpleasant to the rider, and add to this the fact the flies are biting sharp (which gives one hope of much needed rain) the discomfort of that first ride is complete. Most likely your stable department, in the absence of any particular amount of work, have spent their leisure moments in polishing your saddle, which gives you the feeling of sitting on ice, and when the turn for spirits seizes your animal, how you wish the stable department had refrained from spending their extra time over the saddle. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Excerpt from The Queen's Hounds and Stag-Hunting Recollections The Publishers desire to tender their respectful thanks to Her Majesty the Queen for her gracious permission to select certain pictures from the Royal collections for the illustrations of this book. Also to H.R.H. Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein, K.G., for his kindness in granting facilities in connection with the pictures at Cumberland Lodge. Similar acknowledgments are due to Colonel Sir A. Cope and Mr. Edmund Tattersall; also to Colonel Aubrey Maude for his valuable assistance in the reproduction of the pictures. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Excerpt from Fox-Hunting Recollections Brigade as Captain at twenty years of age, and almost the youngest Captain in the British Army. I joined the depot of the zud Battalion at Alder shot, and my chief remembrance of that spot is in complete contrast to that of the Crimea eternal field days instead of the trenches, and perpetual dust instead of snow. Upon the whole I much preferred Crimean life. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Excerpt from Recollections of My Fifty Years Hunting and Fishing The better reason mayhap Why I have undertaken to tell these stories is that in the years to come com parison can be made with the past and future, and even the contrast of today with those days I have written about is so great that the younger sportsman will marvel. Then again the history of the brook trout in Michigan should be preserved. We have much writ ten about the grayling; nothing of the introduction of the brook trout; and how few anglers of today know that this fish was not native to the streams of the Lower Peninsula where now it is found. Little has before been written about hunting the Michigan wild turkey. I have not said much of the wild pigeon for I covered that subject about as fully as I could in The Passenger Pigeon, a book written by me in 1907. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Excerpt from Fox-Hunting Recollections About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Excerpt from Sporting Recollections: Hunting, Shooting, Cricket, Steeplechasing, Racing Etc;, Etc At the delineation of subjects taken from the world of Sport, both with pen and pencil, induces the Author to hope that his present attempt will be received by Sportsmen generally with equal. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Excerpt from Recollections of a Fox-Hunter The idea of producing this volume for the press was suggested to me by a friend, who had been looking over my sporting memoranda, to which has been affixed, at his particular request, an account of my sporting career, from my earliest recollections. The work has no pretensions to any lucidus ordo in the arrangement of the Chapters, which are merely excerpta from my scrapbook, somewhat resembling the various receipts contained in a cookery book, which I hope, however, may not prove wholly unpalatable to the Sporting Public. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Excerpt from In Scarlet and Silk: Or Recollections of Hunting and Steeplechase Riding About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.