" Hunting is the sport of kings, the image of war without 

 its guilt, with only five-and-twenty per cent, of the 

 danger." 



O John Jorrocks felt and said; but in 

 his oratorical effort to glorify hunting 

 he both over- and under-did his figures of 

 rhetoric — for though stag-hunting, so long 

 as we have the buck-hounds, may yet be a 

 royal sport in Old England, the whole line 

 of crowned heads that have done us the 

 honour of sitting on our throne would 

 repudiate fox-hunting as the sport of kings, 



