Sporting Adventures of Charles Carrington Esq And Other Stories
Sporting Adventures of Charles Carrington Esq And Other Stories
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Yet very many rich men are the greatest screws possible carrying out the old adage of " the more you have, the more you want. " Love of sport is one of the boasted and general characteristics of an Englishman ; but I am inclined to think that, after all, young England is not such an ardent sportsman or such a hard man as his father and grandfathers were. As a rule, they are more of the feather-bed and hearth-rug sort ; but this by no means applies to all, for I know many good and indefatigable ...men, and there are hundreds I do not.
Our forefathers were, no doubt, earlier than we are that is, they did not, in spite of their hard drinking at times, turn night into morning as we do. They went early to bed, and got up early ; began hunting before daylight, and managed to kill 259 260 SPORTING FOR MEN OF MODERATE MEANS their fox as twilight fell. Their soul was in sport, and we love to talk and hear about the grand, generous, though illiterate old squires of a hundred and fifty years ago. Men who always stirred their ale with a sprig of rosemary, and drank posset before going to bed ; dined at one o'clock when they were at home ; smoked their " yard of clay, " wore topboots, buckskins, and a blue coat with brass buttons regular Squire Westerns, but perhaps a little more refined than that worthy was.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
Yet very many rich men are the greatest screws possible carrying out the old adage of " the more you have, the more you want. " Love of sport is one of the boasted and general characteristics of an Englishman ; but I am inclined to think that, after all, young England is not such an ardent sportsman or such a hard man as his father and grandfathers were. As a rule, they are more of the feather-bed and hearth-rug sort ; but this by no means applies to all, for I know many good and indefatigable ...men, and there are hundreds I do not.
Our forefathers were, no doubt, earlier than we are that is, they did not, in spite of their hard drinking at times, turn night into morning as we do. They went early to bed, and got up early ; began hunting before daylight, and managed to kill 259 260 SPORTING FOR MEN OF MODERATE MEANS their fox as twilight fell. Their soul was in sport, and we love to talk and hear about the grand, generous, though illiterate old squires of a hundred and fifty years ago. Men who always stirred their ale with a sprig of rosemary, and drank posset before going to bed ; dined at one o'clock when they were at home ; smoked their " yard of clay, " wore topboots, buckskins, and a blue coat with brass buttons regular Squire Westerns, but perhaps a little more refined than that worthy was.
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