British Sports And Pastimes 1868 Classic Reprint PDF Download

Excerpt from British Sports and Pastimes 1868 In thus offering to the public the following essays on the British out-of-door Sports and Pastimes of the present day, reprinted from the pages of the Saint Pauls Magazine, it has been the object of the writers to explain, with as much accuracy as the narrow limits of such work would allow them, the present condition of those sports which are essentially dear to the English nature, and which are at the present day so strongly in vogue in England as to have a manifest effect on the lives and characters of Englishmen. There have been other sports which were formerly essentially English; but they have either passed away so entirely as to be now not known among us, or they are so far gone in the yellow leaf as not to be worthy of being now classed with those to which the following pages are devoted. Cock-fighting and Badger-baiting are to be counted among the former. 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.