Excerpt from Sporting Sketches at Home and Abroad Ments in the characters I have introduced, but I have endeavoured, to the utmost of my power, to avoid treading on any toes; for, in the happy bygone days, when time and money were considerations scarce worthy of notice, we lived as a united fam ily - brothers in sport. For the rest, having brought it to the post, I must leave. 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.