SPORTING FOR MEN OF MODERATE 

 MEANS 



For your wealthy noblemen, or large landed pro- 

 prietors, it matters little what sport of any kind 

 costs them, whether in horses, hounds, shooting, 

 fishing, yachting, racing, or coursing. 



Yet very many rich men are the greatest screws 

 possible — carrying out the old adage of " the more 

 you have, the more you want." Love of sport is 

 one of the boasted and general characteristics of an 

 Englishman ; but I am inclined to think that, after 

 all, young England is not such an ardent sportsman 

 or such a hard man as his father and grandfathers 

 were. As a rule, they are more of the feather-bed 

 and hearth-rug sort ; but this by no means applies 

 to all, for I know many good and indefatigable men, 

 and there are hundreds I do not. 



Our forefathers were, no doubt, earlier than we 

 are — that is, they did not, in spite of their hard 

 drinking at times, turn night into morning as we 

 do. They went early to bed, and got up early ; 

 began hunting before daylight, and managed to kill 



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