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Excerpt from Fifty Years of My Life, in the World of Sport, at Home and Abroad, Vol. 2 of 2 September 16th, 1893. N.B. - Early in June my Editor started for Norway, and, though I promised to send him out copy twice a week, receiving ample and particular instructions as to the best days to post the result of my labours, yet the old adage came only too true: "When the cat's away, the mice will play." 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.