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Every sport and game of the Edwardian world in four volumes — from angling and ballooning to yachting — written by the people who did them, Theodore Roosevelt on big game among them.

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Slip

To withdraw the part of the body at which an opponent aims in order that, finding no resistance, he may overbalance himself, and give an opening for a cut.

Slope swords. The order to carry the weight of the sword upon the right shoulder, the elbow close to the body, and the arm bent straight forward at a right angle.

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