Excerpt from The Image of War: A Sporting Autobiography
The question - "Why not write your autobiography?" - that was put to me not long ago, is one calculated to give any of us a shock, reminding us, as it does, that we have reached the age when life lies not so much before us as behind us. Yet, though I am old enough to have seen, if not to remember, the army that was on its way to win Solferino; and to recollect distinctly the sight of the wounded who had been brought back from the earthworks of Duppel; to have dined with people so well known in the remote past as Taglioni and Jenny Lind, Mr Roebuck and General Turr; and even to have met, as a boy does. Marshal Prim and Cavour, John Delane, and "the Old Shekarry," I cannot feel that I have yet attained my anecdotage.
Nevertheless, it occurred to me that, like WhyteMelville, "the best of my fun, I owe it to horse and to hound;" and that I am scarcely likely to add much more to my experience with these or with the rifle. So that a book containing the most notable of my sporting memories might be allowable - and final. As such I offer - it to the reader.
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