Fores's Sporting Notes and Sketches (Volume 23 (1906)) - Softcover

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This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1906. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... THE SPORTSMAN'S BABY. By CUTHBERT BRADLEY. i-yT was the infant's good fortune to be born of sporting parents, and, such is the force of heredity, he was credited with having cried 'Tally-ho' on arriving, if not to have actually crowed like a grouse! It is said that there is no more romance after the baby's arrival. But a nursery holds the most interesting--not to mention the most expensive--of all young stock, and a new page in history is commenced. Like a thoroughbred foal that is entered for the Derby the day it is dropped, our young hero's future career was at once mapped out by his fond parents, who hoped to see him at school and college according to family tradition. If it were not that a child more resembles the age in which he is born than he does his father or mother, we should see little progress made by a nation; which accounts, I suppose, for the fact that the rising generation is generally more rapid than the one that precedes it..- With sporting antecedents on both sides of the family, it was only in the natural course of events that the youngster should quite early develop tendencies of a very decided nature. The kind duties which were performed for Romulus and Remus by a wolf, were evidently undertaken for young hopeful by a fox, for his nursery surroundings savoured of the chase. Toys and general baby litter were all emblematic of fox-hunting, and a double-barrelled name bestowed on him at the christening, seemed to be only appropriate. What a host of new experiences crowd on the scene with the arrival of the son and heir, the future owner of the family fox-covert! Born in the world of trouble and ill. Teething and hiccough, and water of dill; Born, and he knows not when and why, He opens the scene with a terrible cry. Yes, the fine fellow with t...