22 SPORTING OF THE PAST AND PRESENT 



make their ground good ; in thick turnips you can 

 hardly walk too slowly. 



But I must hold, these notes are growing too 

 long under my " grey goose quill." (I am old- 

 fashioned enough to prefer a quill pen to a steel 

 one.) Old fellow-sportsmen, and young ones, 

 adieu. May you have a good season, and good 

 health and spirits to enjoy it ! 



