IN TWO VOLUMES—VOL. II.
LONDON
BELLAIRS & CO.
1897
CONTENTS
| PAGE | |
| Sporting of the Past and the Present Day | [1] |
| By "Old Calabar" | |
| Down the Beck | [23] |
| By G. Christopher Davies | |
| An Apology for Fishing | [45] |
| Dogs I Have Known | [58] |
| By Captain R. Bird Thompson | |
| November Shooting | [85] |
| By "Old Calabar" | |
| Sporting Adventures of Charles Carrington, Esq. | [94] |
| By "Old Calabar" | |
| My First Day's Fox-Hunting | [121] |
| By the Owner of "Iron Duke" | |
| My First and Last Steeple-Chase | [139] |
| A Story of a "Dark" Horse | |
| Salmon-Spearing | [165] |
| Carpe Diem | [182] |
| By the Author of "Mountain, Meadow and Mere" | |
| Newmarket | [192] |
| By Captain R. Bird Thompson | |
| Kate's Day with the Old Horse | [207] |
| By Clive Phillips Wolley | |
| Some Curious Horses | [235] |
| By Captain R. Bird Thompson | |
| Sporting for Men of Moderate Means | [259] |
| By "Old Calabar" | |
| Partridge Manors and Rough Shooting | [285] |
| By "Old Calabar" | |
| Who is to Ride Him? | [302] |
| By "Old Calabar" | |
| A Cub-Hunting Invitation | [331] |
| By the Editor | |
| Told After Mess | [336] |
| By the Editor |
SPORTING OF THE PAST AND THE PRESENT DAY
"O tempora! O mores!" how our grandsires would stare if they could only see how differently sporting in all its branches is carried on now-a-days; it would make their pigtails stand on end, and the brass buttons fly off their blue coats in very fright.
There are few of the Squire Western school now left; but occasionally you may still come across some jovial old sportsman of eighty years or more, who, though his form is shrunken, and his snow-white head proclaims that many winters have passed over it, yet carries a pair of eyes as bright and keen as of yore, eyes that glisten again when he launches forth on his favourite hobby.