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killed, though it is not sportsmanship, but butchery and 

 wanton cruelty, to kill animals which are valueless and out 

 of season ; it is not in the inevitable certainty of success 

 for certainty destroys the excitement, which is the soul of 

 sport but it is in the vigor, science, and manhood displayed 

 in the difficulties to be overcome, in the pleasurable anx- 

 iety for success, and the uncertainty of it, and lastly in the 

 true spirit, the style, the dash, the handsome way of doing 

 what is to be done, and, above all, in the unalterable love 

 of fair play, that first thought of the genuine sportsman, 

 that true sportsmanship consists. 



And that it never may be degraded into aught else, is 

 the ardent wish, as it shall ever be the teaching, of Frank 

 Forester. 



