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nothing but light claret, one bottle per diem : but I 

 have never omitted, wherever I was, whether in town 

 or country, whether the weather was fair or the reverse, 

 to walk regularly eight miles, and generally twelve 

 miles, every day of my life, unless I had an opportunity 

 of going out shooting. I have also for a great many 

 years been very particular in taking a sponging bath 

 of cold water every morning." 



A simple regimen ! but one that not many men have 

 either the opportunity or the inclination to adopt. 



Not till four years after that letter to Mr. Snowic, on 

 December 6th, 1886, did the grand old sportsman pass 

 behind the veil. He has left none like him : the 

 heroic breed to which he belonged is extinct, 



