Excerpt from Powder, Spur, and Spear: A Sporting Medley True. That exception is the story entitled The Biter Bit; and even that has a substratum of truth as far as the plot is concerned. I need hardly add that all names are for obvious rea sons entirely fictitious. With this apology I venture to launch the work to sink or swim on its merits, only asking the reader not to be too hard' in his criticisms on the writing of one who, whatever he may know about sport, has had but little experience in the more difficult task of ...
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Excerpt from Powder, Spur, and Spear: A Sporting Medley True. That exception is the story entitled The Biter Bit; and even that has a substratum of truth as far as the plot is concerned. I need hardly add that all names are for obvious rea sons entirely fictitious. With this apology I venture to launch the work to sink or swim on its merits, only asking the reader not to be too hard' in his criticisms on the writing of one who, whatever he may know about sport, has had but little experience in the more difficult task of clothing his descriptions of it in suitable language.' To the artists my best thanks are due; and I think spon'smen will agree with me that the incidents as well as their various technicalities have been faithfully delineated. They have been done from rough sketches of my own, and from. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... 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.
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