The Life of a Sportsman

Writing under the pseudonym of 'Nimrod', this is Captain Apperley's famous "half-true, half-fictitious story descriptive of a country gentleman, of large fortune and highly connected, having two sons and two daughters the hero of my tale is the younger son, who, differing in tastes from his brother, enters into the sports of the field at a very early age, and becomes a thorough sportsman, in the legitimate sense of that, often wrongly applied, term." Apperley deals with the world before the rail