How to walk for and shoot Snipe. 7 1 



your shooting, or your dog is wild, producing 

 a like effect on your temper, do not in your 

 finest frenzy forget that in the first place it 

 is probably not his fault, and in the second, 

 that the day's sport was begun entirely by 

 your will and for your amusement. If for 

 any reason it ceases to amuse you, go home, 

 and do not blackguard the man who gets no 

 fun at all out of the toil save that afforded 

 him by his instinctive love of sport. I 

 have shot with men who persisted in walking, 

 shooting, missing, and cursing the silent un- 

 fortunate behind them, long after the day 

 had become absolutely hateful to themselves. 

 This is foolish, and in the last item cowardly, 

 unless, as will often be the case in wild 

 districts, you are attended by a hot-blooded 

 Celt, whom vituperation will goad into giving 

 rather more than he receives ! 



Returning to the numbers of the snipe- 

 shooting party, very few people will probably 

 care to walk all day in solitary glory. One 

 companion at least is necessary for any one 

 but the keenest of the keen, though I must 



