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KING EDWARD VII.
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that gambling, like intemperance, is one of the greatest curses which the country could be afflicted with.
Horse racing may produce gambling or it may not, but I have always looked upon it as a manly sport which is popular with Englishmen of all classes, and there is no reason why it should be looked upon as a gambling transaction. Alas! those who gamble will gamble at anything.
He was a good rider to hounds, and had a friendly greeting for every man in the hunting field; he was a welcome guest in many a farmhouse after the hard day's run, being regaled on bread and cheese and home-brewed. In a word, he fulfilled his own definition of himself to the Savage Club:
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