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Title: The hunting field with horse and hound in America, the British Isles and France
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Peer, Frank Sherman
Subjects: Hunting Fox hunting
Publisher: New York, M. Kennerley
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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hing. Chagrin, disgrace,mortification is the only reward for the second best. This isthe greatest weakness in school and college sports in Americato-day. What is needed most is some form of schooling that will notonly grow thrifty, healthy animals with nerve, courage, healthand endurance, but such as will inculcate that best of all Chris-tian virtues; i. e., living by the golden rule. Where and bywhat form of training can these things better be accomplishedthan an open-air play ground? Where and by what methodcan we better teach our children how to play fair and takedefeat as well as victory, in a sportsmanlike manner? How, orby what process can we develop in our children a guaranteeto health and long life, better than by that daily exercise ingentlemanly and womanly games of field sports, which storetheir systems with energy to carry them through the trials andcares of life to a ripe old age ? We delve and slave and deny our-selves many comforts to give our children the best training
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Foot Beagles 225 for their minds that we can command, while the growth andtraining of their bodies are left almost entirely to chance. As a nation, we seem to lose sight of the fact that childrenare animals and as such should have our first consideration.The writer makes this plea for the growing boy and girl ofAmerica, that our schools and colleges let up on mind cram-ming and professional athletic training and teach them how toplay, how to play fair, how to win and take defeat; and thatparents should insist upon it that such a training becomes apart of their childrens education. To return to foot beagles, Hunting, says the immortalJorricks, is the image of war without its guilt. It possessesqualifications that appeal to all thoroughly manly natures. Itdevelops those qualities found in thoroughly masculine men;,that are most admired by thoroughly feminine women. Long live the chase! To Mr. Lindley Bott, First Whipper-in to theEssex Otterhounds. Where a winding stream amid flowering m

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