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and will perhaps in reading it sympathize with one who has 

 done her best to record in an interesting manner " the life of a 

 great sportsman." 



MARY E. RICHARDSON. 

 July, 1914. 



Postscript 



My thanks are due to Mr. John Neilson (the Managing 

 Director of Messrs. Vinton and Co.) for his unfailing courtesy 

 and his interest in this book during the long period it has been 

 " on the stocks." 



The manuscript was in his hands a month before the war 

 broke out, but it was thought unwise to publish it until the 

 cessation of hostilities. Now that the Allies have practically 

 completed the task to which they had set their hands, and men 

 war weary are returning to the more congenial pursuits of peace, 

 the sport of kings can again be enjoyed to the full, and so it is 

 hoped that this life of a great sportsman may be acceptable to a 

 wide range of readers. 



The intervening period, since the manuscript was completed, 

 has been saddened by the passing of some of my brother's 

 dearest friends, including Lord Minto, Lord Clarendon, Sir 

 Chandos Leigh, Rev. Cecil Legard, Mr. Leopold de Rothschild, 

 Mr. Thomas Hare, and my sympathetic collaborator, Mr. Finch 

 Mason, " Uncle Toby " of the Sporting Times. 



In Sir Heron Maxwell's words engraved on the flask he 

 presented to my brother, let us hope they have met " in those 

 happy hunting grounds far, far away." 



M. E. R. 



February., 1919. 



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