Excerpt from Medley of Sport The light northerly breeze carries the gunning-punt up the sinuous low-way at fair speed, and Gaffer Gilson steers with unerring skill past every jut of ooze and black ground. A heron rises like a grey phantom from the side of the gully, and, uttering a hoarse croak of alarm, he glides on his great wings to seek a quieter fishing ground. 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.