4 RID/XG. Dh'nVNG AND KINDRED SPORTS 



suggestions and directions for the practical side 

 of the various sports treated of, which may be 

 useful to all. In addition to the usual English 

 sports, I have added sections on Indian polo, 

 pig-sticking, and jackal hunting, because India 

 is still a paradise for the sportsman of mode- 

 rate means with some leisure, and offers a far 

 from exhausted field for the traveller, or to 

 those whom the search for daily bread may 

 lead thither in one capacity or another. 



There is one question which I think every 

 reader asks : What good, if any, can be drawn 

 from books } Can I really learn to ride or 

 drive, or play polo, or practice any sport from 

 books } To this the answer is that you cannot 

 do so altogether, but that having once mastered 

 the elements of the sport or game, it is of great 

 advantage to become acquainted with the best 

 that has been written on the subject. For this 

 reason you will find that sportsmen are eager to 

 read what has been said on their particular 

 subjects, and that they will readily acknowledge 

 the benefits they have thus received. Sporting- 

 books are for the most part readable. I do not 

 hesitate to say that in the course of my own 

 Experience I have gained great profit from 

 reading, and I have never failed to read any 

 book on sport, old or new, which has come in 

 my way. In fact, a man who undertakes any 



