20 SHOOTING IN CHINA 



throughout China the inconvenience would 

 still be great, but when there are about 

 seventy local varieties of tael, each differing 

 slightly from every other, as one proceeds 

 from place to place, the shooter would have 

 more trouble in keeping up with the value 

 of his money than he would with the most 

 cunning of cock-pheasants. 



But the shooter must not be discouraged 

 by the different dialects, the characteristics 

 of the people, or the confusion of the money, 

 for the difficulty of smoothing his way 

 through it all is not insurmountable. China 

 is still the " happy hunting ground," and 

 if one begins with a general idea of the 

 situation, and is a true sportsman, he will 

 soon experience that no country surpasses 

 China in the opportunities for real enjoy- 

 ment. If the services of a properly qualified 

 interpreter are engaged there need be no 

 serious thought of the peculiarities of the 

 language or the people, and as to the 

 money, in use among the Chinese, the 

 advice is not to trouble about it, for if the 

 shooter supplies himself with the requisite 

 number of Mexican dollars he will have no 

 rea.son to concern or perplex his mind by 



