PREFACE. 



" Be foul or fair, or rain or shine, 

 The joys I have possessed, in spite of fate, are mine ; 

 Not Jove himself upon the past has power, 

 What has been — has been — and I have had my hour.'' 



Horace. 



RE favourable reception that was ac- 

 corded to TaUyJio,* has induced me 

 to again reprint sketches of hunting, 

 shooting, coaching, fishing, etc., which appeared 

 during the seasons 1878-9 in the columns of the 

 Daily Telegraph, and the oldest of sporting 

 papers, BelVs Life in London, by permission 

 of the respective proprietors. 



At no time during my recollection has the 

 manliest of all our national sports — hunting — 

 been more popular. The revival of coaching, 



* 1" ally ho, Tinsley Brotaers, 8 Catherine Street, W.C. 



