Shooting: A Manual of Practical Information on This Branch of British Field Sports (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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We hold the s ort Of shooting to be susceptible. Of imparting the most lively grat' cation to all well-constituted minds, andto be a most necessary relaxation from and counterpoise to the wasteful pressure of incessant toil and watchful thought. The social and individual advantages of Enghsh field-sports are beyond calcula tion. Men dwell upon a remembrance of them with a reverence bordering on idolatry. The pastimes of our forefathers have ever been of a manly and vigorous kind. The whole train of amuse ments in olden times was calculated to render the youthful gene ration active, sprightly, nimble, generous, and courageous, and to rear them up to useful and honourable manhood. With what enthusiasm and right good-feeling do we ponder over the pages of some of the old writers, who tell us that in the. Holidays, m the summer and autumn, the gents are exercised inleapmg, dancing, shooting, wrestling, and casting the stone, and practising at the tar get; and the maidens trip With their timbrels, and dance as long as they can see.

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