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the woods, and the mountains. If, therefore, I hav^e reproduced 

 matter ah-eady, and perhaps long since, before the public, no one can 

 charge me with plagiarism. Except where acknowledged, what I 

 have adduced in this book is the outcome of my own experience or 

 observation, and those who have followed Sport in nearly all its 

 branches for as long as I htive done, will, I daresay, have come to 

 some of my conclusions, and if they have put their ideas on paper 

 coincidence is inevitable. 



Deficient as I am as a scholar, but refusing to have it edited, I am 

 not such a fool as to think that my book deserves commendation 

 from a literary point of view — the subject dealt \^^th, and that upon 

 my first attempt at a book, being one which, to treat adequately, 

 would i-equii-e the powers of a Whyte-Melville or a Bromley- 

 Davenport. Be it of what merit it may, the book should have been 

 published more than two years ago by those to whom I had first 

 entrusted it; however, they have been got rid of, and the well- 

 known firm of Simpkin, Marshall, and Co., Ltd., Paternoster Row, 

 are now my publishers. 



Harry B. Sargent. 



51, Pall Mall, London, 

 Atigust, 1895, 



