Excerpt from Forty-Five Years of Sport The task of editing the following pages has been a very pleasurable one to me, and I sincerely trust that their perusal may prove equally so to the reader. An editor is, at the best, but the mouthpiece of the author, and if I have failed to do justice to the ms. Placed in my hands I must excuse myself on the ground of being rather soldier and sportsman than scribe. I gladly take the opportunity thus afforded me of tendering my sincere thanks to Mr. F. H. Salvin, the author of Falconry in the British Isles, ' for the very material assistance he has given me in the compilation of Part V. He has also very kindly lent some of the plates from that valuable work. My thanks are also due to Mr. Hutchinson for kindly overlooking the portion on Golf.' About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.