Country Pursuits and Pastimes: a Chapter of Accidents, with some observations and cautions by an old stager who has had experience o moving accidents
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Country Pursuits and Pastimes: a Chapter of Accidents, with some observations and cautions by an old stager who has had experience o moving accidents by flood and field, signed with the initials S.P.F., inscribed Brympton [Somerset] and dated Nov. 1901, a privately published manuscript book with original drawings associated with the Railway Passengers Assurance Company of 64 Cornhill, London, and presumably issued to or created by a salesman, the content warning prospective customers through whimsical prose, rhyme & illustrations that ''accidents will happen'' while participating in sporting & leisure pursuits including cycling, billiards, boating, boxing, carpentry, cricket, driving, home farming, fishing, football, golf, gardening, grouse driving, hockey, hunting, lawn tennis, polo, promenading, skating, shooting, felling timber & motoring, the book concluding with a ''moral'' HASTEN, WISE FOLK, TO SIXTY FOUR CORNHILL. ASK FOR A FORM - THE SIMPLE DETAILS FILL. INSURANCE MAY SOME CONSOLATION YIELD FOR MOVING ACCIDENTS BY FLOOD AND FIELD., boards covered with red cloth and inscribed gilt