The sports of the world, with illustrations from drawings and photographs . THE QUORN HUNT.(Photo : Elliott i. Fry. W.) 6o THE SPORTS OF THE WORLD. was no ones enemy but his own ; and CharlesPayn, the huntsman, sketched to the life bvWhyte Melville in the famous description of a runirom Crick Gorse in that immortal book Market ists are among the enthusiasts, In his earlierdays our present King, Edward VII., soughtrecreation in the hunting fields. Leicestershireresponded well as became a great hunting country,. MR. FERNIES HOUNDS.(Miofo; Elliott & Fil, Bater Street, W.) Harboroug


The sports of the world, with illustrations from drawings and photographs . THE QUORN HUNT.(Photo : Elliott i. Fry. W.) 6o THE SPORTS OF THE WORLD. was no ones enemy but his own ; and CharlesPayn, the huntsman, sketched to the life bvWhyte Melville in the famous description of a runirom Crick Gorse in that immortal book Market ists are among the enthusiasts, In his earlierdays our present King, Edward VII., soughtrecreation in the hunting fields. Leicestershireresponded well as became a great hunting country,. MR. FERNIES HOUNDS.(Miofo; Elliott & Fil, Bater Street, W.) Harborough, which is still the best sporting novelin existence. Hunting in Leicestershire is bound up with ournational life and the history of the nineteenthcentury. Statesmen and Cabinet Ministers, likethe present Duke of Rutland, Lord Spencer, andMr. Chaplin, artists, novelists, soldiers, diplomat- to the call for yeomen, and one of its smallest butmost charming villages, whence I am now writing,sent several gallant lads to South Africa for threeyears. Of all sports, hunting is perhaps thehappiest, healthiest, and most wholesome, andnothing but its own popularity can ever destroyit in England. 61 THE BOW AND CROSS=BOW ON THE CONTINENT. By COLONEL WALROND.


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