Bogtrothng, etc. loi 



talned that its hind legs sank first, gradually 

 pulling the body upon end, in which posi- 

 tion the bog was just sufficiently large to 

 contain the carcass. The surface was strong 

 enough to bear a heavy man easily, as the dis- 

 consolate owner demonstrated to me against 

 my advice. 



On seeking counsel from old hands, the 

 young sportsman is more often than not 

 disheartened at the very outset by being 

 told that snipe-shooting is a ''knack." More- 

 over, if his Mentor is one of that numerous 

 class who ''never bother about snipe," it is 

 ten to one that he is further given to under- 

 stand that this mysterious art is quite un- 

 attainable unless a man is naturally blessed 

 with it from infancy. Of which statements 

 the first part is perhaps pretty true, and the 

 second both untrue and absurd. Snipe- 

 shooting is a "knack," in so far as it is 

 impossible to attain perfection in all its 

 branches all at once, and perhaps from the 

 fact that proficiency may one day arrive like 

 a flash; but as this desirable consummation 



