PREFACE 



J T seems desirable to write a few words 

 of preface to this booh, chiefly with 

 the object of stating what it is : a reprint 

 of sketches which have appeared in the 

 Badminton Magazine. Before the first 

 number was published in August 1895, 

 / was gratified by receiving from Major 

 R. S. S. Baden-Powell the offer of an 

 article about Pig-sticking, illustrated as 

 well as written by himself, and called 

 u The Sport of Rajahs." I knew that 



