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A Screw Losing Hazard.
BILLIARDS
DEDICATION
TO
H.R.H. THE PRINCE OF WALES
Having received permission to dedicate these volumes,the Badminton Library of Sports and Pastimes,to His Royal Highness the Prince of WalesI do so feeling that I am dedicating them to one of thebest and keenest sportsmen of our time. I can say, frompersonal observation, that there is no man who canextricate himself from a bustling and pushing crowd ofhorsemen, when a fox breaks covert, more dexterouslyand quickly than His Royal Highness; and that whenhounds run hard over a big country, no man can take aline of his own and live with them better. Also, whenthe wind has been blowing hard, often have I seenHis Royal Highness knocking over driven grouse andpartridges and high-rocketing pheasants in first-rateviworkmanlike style. He is held to be a good yachtsman,and as Commodore of the Royal Yacht Squadron islooked up to by those who love that pleasant andexhilarating pastime. His encouragement of racing iswell known, and his attendance at the University, PublicSchool, and other important Matches testifies to hisbeing, like most English gentlemen, fond of all manlysports. I consider it a great privilege to be allowed todedicate these volumes to so eminent a sportsman asHis Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, and I doso with sincere feelings of respect and esteem and loyaldevotion.