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قراءة كتاب Sporting Society; or, Sporting Chat and Sporting Memories, Vol. 1 (of 2)
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Sporting Society; or, Sporting Chat and Sporting Memories, Vol. 1 (of 2)
Sporting Society
OR
SPORTING CHAT AND SPORTING MEMORIES
STORIES HUMOROUS AND CURIOUS; WRINKLES OF THE FIELD
AND THE RACE-COURSE; ANECDOTES OF THE STABLE AND
THE KENNEL; WITH NUMEROUS PRACTICAL
NOTES ON SHOOTING AND FISHING
FROM THE PEN OF
VARIOUS SPORTING CELEBRITIES AND
WELL-KNOWN WRITERS ON THE TURF AND THE CHASE
EDITED BY
FOX RUSSELL
Illustrations by Randolph Caldecott.
IN TWO VOLUMES—VOL. I.
LONDON
BELLAIRS & CO.
1897
CONTENTS
| PAGE | |
| The Influence of Field Sports on Character | 1 |
| By Sir Courtenay Boyle | |
| Old-Fashioned Angling | 21 |
| By Captain R. Bird Thompson | |
| Partridge Day as it Was and as it Is | 36 |
| By "An Elderly Sportsman" | |
| Simpson's Snipe | 53 |
| By Terence le Smithe | |
| Podgers' Pointer | 80 |
| By Ben B. Brown | |
| The Dead Heat | 101 |
| By "Old Calabar" | |
| Only the Mare | 134 |
| By Alfred E. T. Watson | |
| Hunting in the Midlands | 155 |
| By T. H. S. Escott | |
| A Military Steeplechase | 171 |
| By Captain R. Bird Thompson | |
| How I Won my Handicap | 181 |
| Told by the Winner | |
| The First Day of the Season and its Results | 193 |
| By "Sabretache" | |
| A Day with the Drag | 210 |
| By the Editor | |
| Stag-Hunting on Exmoor | 221 |
| By Captain Redway | |
| Sport amongst the Mountains | 237 |
| By "Sarcelle" | |
| A Birmingham Dog Show | 251 |
| By "Old Calabar" | |
| Huntingcrop Hall | 268 |
| By Alfred E. T. Watson | |
| A Dog Hunt on the Berwyns | 286 |
| By G. Christopher Davies | |
| Some Odd Ways of Fishing | 298 |
| By G. Christopher Davies | |
| Shooting | 306 |
| By Captain R. Bird Thompson |
⁂ "The Dead Heat," by "Old Calabar," was originally contributed by the veteran sportsman to the pages of "Baily's Magazine," and is here reproduced by the permission of the Proprietors.
THE INFLUENCE OF FIELD SPORTS ON CHARACTER
Field sports have been generally considered solely in the light of a relaxation from the graver business of life, and have been justified by writers on economics on the ground that some sort of release is required from the imprisoned existence of the man of business, the lawyer, or the politician. Apollo does not always bend his bow, it is said, and timely dissipation is commendable even in the wise; therefore by all means, let the sports which we English love be pursued within