viii PREFACE. 



without which the book would have been shorn of much 

 of its interest for local readers, he is most grateful, and 

 also to the Editors of TJie Sj^orting Magazine, BelVs Life, 

 TJie Field, Sporting Life, Tlie Derby Mercury, The 

 Staffordshire Advertiser, and The Burton Chronicle, for 

 allowing him to quote from their pages, while to an article 

 in Longman's Magazine he is indebted for a great deal of 

 information about the old forest of Needwood. 



Lastly, it is a duty, as well as a pleasure, to acknow- 

 ledge the ready help which his wife has given un- 

 grudgingly from first to last. 



J. L. R. 



Marchington, 



I)ecemler2, 1901. 



