ST. GILES' DAY 



THE FIRST OF SEPTEMER 



THE First of September. Years come and 

 go. Old friends whose hearts and hopes 

 beat time with ours are gone to their long 

 rest ; white hairs mingle with our black or 

 brown locks, yet our pulse beats quicker, 

 and youthful hopes and anticipations revive 

 with the perennial return of the First. Many 

 years ago the First was looked forward to 

 with quite as much interest as the Twelfth of 

 August is now by the same class of sportsmen, 

 but railways have brought the heather into 

 competition with the stubble, perhaps to the 

 slight detriment of the latter as regards the 



attractiveness of the sport to be obtained 



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