Excerpt from The Best Season on Record: Selected and Republished From the Field The turf just now is in admirable order; rich and soft as velvet, after recent autumnal showers. Would that it could continue so through the five months which to us constitute the heart Of the year, the soul Of our fun' Now we gaily skim the surface; now we are shot up and over with the easiest effort Of a good bold horse. By and by progress may be a deep slow labour; every jump a heavy trial - while hounds may be flitting phantoms, and we, the lesser fry, become lost in the shoal Of struggling comrades. 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.