Modern pig-sticking [antikvár]

CHAPTER IintroductoryIt is twenty-four years since Baden-Powell wrote his charming book on Pig-sticking, and it is no less than twenty-seven years since F. B. Simson's equally classical Sport in Eastern Bengal was published. These works are as true and as valuable as ever, but they are hard to get.The water under the bridge never stands still. There has been a great revival of pig-sticking. New Tent Clubs have sprung up ; the class of horse has improved ; preservation, riding, and hunting are carried out on possibly more scientific lines.I can tell you of no better men, illustrate to you no finer sport than you will find in the books I have mentioned. I only try to write, in the interval, as I hope, between two pig-sticking campaigns, of the sport as I have known it in the past fifteen years.In any affair in life, if a man talks one's first thought is always, " Who is he ? What does he know about his subject ? " So I will tell you what is necessary about the other writers in this book and myself. I love a clear understanding.Colonel John Vaughan, D.S.O., of the Cavalry School, lately commanding the 10th Hussars, winner of the Kadir Cup, as well known after pig as he is1B