The Sport of Our Ancestors: Being a Collection of Prose and Verse Setting Forth the Sport of Fox-Hunting, as They Knew It; Edited and Selected, With an Introduction and Appreciations (Classic Reprint) - Softcover
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Y the Sport of our Ancestors is meant the sport of B F ox-hunting. Anything to do with Sport has always been so popular in these islands that the word is now used to dignify almost anything in the nature of a competition, being applied to golf, football, lawn-tennis, hockey, or battledore and shuttlecock. But perhaps a better testimony to the supreme value of the idea of Sport in the Englishman's mind is the natural way in which he designates as a good sportsman any one whom he particularly wishes to praise. No man can have greater honour in this country than to be known as a good sportsman, or, in the vernacular of those who are regardless of grammar, as a Sport.' He may achieve this reputation without ever having been on a horse or handled a gun or a fishing-rod. But he must possess a sense of humour and, above all, an ability to take risks and to play for his side. These attributes, added, of course, to a certain standard of kindliness and good conduct, are what distinguish the good sportsman or Sport among his fellows. But for the purpose of these papers the term Sport will be only applied to field sports, meaning the pursuit of'wild v11.
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- Publication date2018
- ISBN 10 1330355202
- ISBN 13 9781330355206
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages330
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