viii PREFACE 



the actual experiences of others as well as myself rather than 

 any idle thoughts which might be the outcome of a vivid 

 imagination. 



The substance of part of the work has previously seen 

 the light of day in article form which I have contributed 

 from time to time to the pages of The Field, Land and Water, 

 The Shooting Times, Rod and Gun, and other periodicals and 

 magazines, and through the kindness and courtesy of the 

 editors of which I am enabled to reproduce them. 



Recognising the fact that this is an age of magazine 

 reading, I have here and there introduced short stories 

 founded on fact, in an endeavour to illustrate the better 

 the peculiarities of Broadland sport, which, to many visitors, 

 constitute its greatest charm. 



I would thank the many friends who have so kindly 

 assisted me with details and facts not within my own know- 

 ledge which especially applies to the chapters on yachting. 

 Amongst them I individualise Colonel H. M. Leathes, Mr 

 T. M. Read, Mr L. E. Bolingbroke, Mr G. H. Lovewell 

 Blake and Mr Richard Fielding Harmer, not forgetting an 

 affectionate parent and a good sportsman of the old school 

 in my father, Mr W. Spencer Everitt. 



I owe a debt of gratitude to Mr Russel J. Colmau, Mi- 

 Edwin Poyser, Mrs A. W. Weldon, Miss M. Pickthall, Mr E. 

 P. Buck worth, Mr R. Lee Barber, Mr G. M. Chamberlin, 

 Mr J. J. Dawson Paul, The Rev. H. Rogers, Mr Ralph 

 Watling, Mr W. S. Parker, Mr H. Johnson, Mr F. Miller, 

 Mr H. Jenkins and Mr Hubert Palmer, for the loan of 

 photographs of yachts or relating to yachting. Also 

 to Mr Herbert Baker for permitting me to reproduce the 

 curious painting in tempora depicted on page 64. 



I am extremely obliged to Messrs G. J. and F. W. Skipper, 

 Architects, Norwich, for their kindness in supplying me 

 with the drawing appearing on page 303; also to Messrs 



