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PREFACE 



T AM greatly indebted to the proprietors of Elack- 

 A wood's and the Cornhill Magazines ', of the old 

 Pall Mall Gazette, and of the Saturday Review for 

 permission to reprint these articles, which attempt 

 sketches of sport and rural life in Great Britain in 

 bygone years. Some have been rearranged in chapters, 

 and slightly remodelled. The most recent is the 

 article on " Coverts," which Messrs. Longman very 

 kindly allow me to use, although it appeared only 

 the other day in the Badminton Magazine. Of the 

 other chapters, i-vii, x-xiii, xvii-xix, xxiii-xxvii, 

 are from Black wood's Magazine ; viii, xx, xxii, from 

 the Pall Mall Gazette ; ix, from the Saturday Review ; 

 and xiv xvi, from the Cornhill Magazine. 



ALEX. INNES SHAND. 

 OAKDALE, 



EDENBRIDGE, KENT. 



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