Excerpt from Sport: Fox-Hunting, Salmon-Fishing, Covert-Shooting, Deer-Stalking

The success which has followed the publication of the two first editions of "Sport" encourages the hope that a new and less costly edition will be even more widely read and appreciated. The book may be regarded as a defence and justification of the amusements of an English country gentleman, an exposition of the ignorance and misstatements of many who have treated the same subject without knowledge or experience, and a condemnation of some few who have written with the direct intention of throwing discredit upon those Sports in which the English people have always excelled, and which are still in some degree open to all who care to enjoy them. If the Author has succeeded in proving that these "Sports" are each in its different way deservedly popular not necessarily cruel nor in any want of legislative interference - the main object with which he wrote has been attained.

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