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THE SPORT OF RAJAHS 

 derived from a gallop with hounds 

 in a peaceful English county. Yet 

 in the Indian sport — for all its ex- 

 citement — you do not get the home 

 surroundings, the stretching gallop 

 over fences and grass, the keen air, 

 the neighbourly pageant, and all the 

 halo of Old EngHshness that go to 

 make fox-hunting the lovable sport 

 it is. Indeed it is only after testing 

 other sports that you really appreciate 

 to the full the beauty of this more 

 homely one. 



I suppose that in all the notable 

 events of a man's life he remembers 

 his first better than any subsequent 

 experience. On me personally my 

 first hog-hunting day is very indelibly 

 impressed : not that it was a specially 

 eventful dav as hog-hunting davs eo. 



