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DEDICATION 
TO 
H.RH. THE PRINCE OF WALES 
aE gin: BADMINTON : May 1885. 
HAVING received permission to dedicate these volumes 
the BADMINTON LIBRARY of SPORTS and PASTIMES, 
to His ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCE OF WALES, 
I do so feeling that I am dedicating them to one of the 
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___ best and keenest sportsmen of our time. I can say, from 
personal observation, that there is no man who can 
extricate himself from a bustling and pushing crowd of 
horsemen, when a fox breaks covert, more dexterously 
__ and quickly than His Royal Highness; and that when 
_ hounds run hard over a big country, no man can take a 
% line of his own and live with them better. Also, when 
4 ‘the wind has been blowing hard, often have I seen 
His Royal Highness knocking over driven grouse and 
_ Partridges and high-rocketing pheasants in first-rate 
