Excerpt from Sport at Home and Abroad, Vol. 2 of 2 There are few months Which produce more gratification to the English country gentleman, the Sportsman, and agriculturist than the month of August; for, While on the one hand the cultivator of broad acres reaps the produce of his labour, Upon the other the lover of out-door amusements finds the stubble and turnip fields getting ready for himself and his well-trained pointers and setters to commence the annual First of September campaign against the par tridges. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.