The Sport of Our <*Ancestors 



whose manifestations have been the incitement to class 

 hatred and the passing of the ParHament Act. Yes, those 

 country gentlemen who came of age when England was 

 beginning to recover from her struggle with Napoleon, and 

 died before she felt the full effect of her struggle with Ger- 

 many, must have drawn a very lucky number. These years 

 roughly correspond with the lives of Warburton, Whyte 

 Melville, Bromley-Davenport, and Trollope, who are among 

 the authors from whose works we have chosen specimens 

 setting forth the Sport of our Ancestors. 



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