It has happened not once or twice that when it
is parti- cularly desired for what reir.oli no sane and decent person can understand, to top the thousand pheasants, or the hundred or three hundred brace of partridges that the keepers are summoned in aid : what they shoot round the edges of the property oil the day before are added in for the sake of the grand total. An ideal not less pernicious prevails on many grouse mix's,. One ean just understand to quote a particular record a single sportsman going out early. and returning late, and working bard all day in order to kill a thousand grouse to his own g . Al the worst. endurance as well as skill is needed for the undesirable feat. Bid recoil battucs —to use a word that was once notorious -are of a worse kidney. They have no redeeming feature at all and are ugly in every lilies-i. They :Ire a grievous slur out the sporting spirit in Brit:tau. all end example as well as an unlovely spectacle. It is. I am afraid. undeniable that the
artificiality of sport is growing coat' ally. The isolation of all other gifts such as a...I-lore. ttatttntl history knowledge or the hunter's sense, is not held ta be a drawback ; and the sole ambition becomes I he multiplicity of corpses.
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