DEDICATION 



H.R.H. THE PRINCE OF WALES. 



Badminton: October \%%i. 



Having received permission to dedicate these volumes, 

 the Badminton Library of Sports and Pastimes, 

 to His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, I 

 do so feehng that I am' dedicating them to one of the 

 best and keenest sportsmen of our time. I. can say, from 

 personal observation, that there is no man who can 

 extricate himself from a bustling and pushing crowd of 

 horsemen, when a fox breaks covert, more dexterously 

 and quickly than His Royal Highness ; and that when 

 hounds run hard over a big country, no man can take a 

 line of his own and live with them better. Also, when 

 the wind has been blowing hard, often have I seen 

 His Royal Highness knocking over driven grouse and 

 partridges and high-rocketing pheasants in first-rate 



