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oround, and the drivlngr seat, I feel I am 

 entitled to offer my counsels to others, and 

 am enabled to promise that nothing is advised 

 In this book which has not been tried and 

 accomplished, if not by the writer himself in 

 all cases, yet by those whose experience has 

 come under his personal observation. The 

 only caution I have to offer is that all estimates 

 of expenses are provisional, because prices 

 vary from time to time, and according to our 

 surroundings. In some instances it will be 

 found that bargains are mentioned to show what 

 can be done by those who will give time and 

 thought to finding them, and not as repre- 

 senting exact prices. For it may be taken as 

 an axiom in all attempts to obtain money's 

 worth, that if you cannot expend coin you 

 must give something very like an equivalent in 

 time and pains. But I am sure that those who 

 read the following pages will, unless indeed 

 they have travelled the same road in life as the 

 writer, gain some useful hints ; and others it 

 may be will see opening out before them the 

 possibility of sharing in sports which they had 

 hitherto looked on as altoorether out of their 

 reach. But though I have in this book thought 

 chiefly of the sportsman, or would-be sports- 

 man, of moderate means, I have not confined 

 myself to his case, for the reader will find 



