SPORTING RECOLLECTIONS. 



INTRODUCTION. 



THE superiority in pluck and endurance of hard- 

 ship which the British Islands have so long held 

 over the other nations of Europe is pretty gener- 

 ally admitted to be in no small degree due to the 

 love and practice of our out-of-door recreations. 

 Nowhere is this more fully acknowledged than in 

 our army, where year by year additional facilities 

 are given to colonels of regiments from head- 

 quarters to permit those under them as much 

 sporting leave as is consistent with attention to 

 duty. Many of our most distinguished com- 

 manders have openly expressed their opinion, that 

 although a man who devotes all his time and 

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