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cemetery, and those who would go exploring and 

 hunting in far distant savage lands ought by right to 

 learn some of the trials that are almost certain to 

 occur even in the most profitable and successful 

 ventures. But there are persons such veritable 

 gluttons for what they deem sport, and which I 

 designate slaughter, that the reading of a paragraph 

 that is not a record of long and short, difficult and 

 easy shots, is simply to them a waste of time and an 

 imposition on their good nature. 



But let me bury my sorrows, and cease from 

 moralising. So return to work, for there is nothing 

 like labour to bring the mind back to a healthy 

 tone. 



