INTRODUCTION 



To those privileged to follow **The Sport of 

 Kings,'* or perhaps, as a Veteran '*Nimrod" 

 of my acquaintance rightly termed it, ** The 

 Sport of all Sports," the sport for which 

 England and Englishmen have become famous, 

 all the world over. 



From, if you like, " The Prehistoric Man," 

 who hunted Salisbury Plain to when Charing 

 Cross was the site of the Packs, whose ''Gone 

 Away ! " resounded in Kensington Gardens — 

 or the Duke of Wellingtons Hunts, who 

 hunted three days a week during the Penin- 

 sular Campaign (engagements permitting), 

 turn where you will, and whatever portion of 

 the globe an Englishman has set foot in, sure 

 enough you will find a foxhound. 



The Immortal Jorrocks, justly termed it, 

 '' No Sport like Unting," whether it be turning 

 out ** cubbing" on some dark September morn 



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