BEDICALTION 
TO 
HERA. Lid FRINCE OF WALES. 
BADMINTON: October 1885 
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 feeling 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 
