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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. 
