GENERAL REMARKS 5 



slow man in a party walking in line, it can be arranged not to 

 tire him, or make a funeral march for the more active ones, 

 by placing the slow walker in the middle of the line, leaving 

 the quicker goers to do the wheeling. This plan can of course 

 only succeed in countries broken up by hedges, and would be 

 useless on moorland beats, which often go straight ahead for a 

 mile or more; but as fast walking is always against making a 

 good bag, the slow man unwittingly does everyone in the field 

 a good turn, and in all cases his compatiy is greatly to be 

 preferred to that of the fast, jealous walker, who is for ever 

 racing in advance of the whole of the other guns. 



Seventhly, — If fault has to be found with either guest or 

 servant, the host should not furiously rage before the whole 

 field; and a guest, except in cases of reckless shooting or 

 dangerous carrying of guns, should never say anything unless 

 directly appealed to. 



Eighthly, — He should never " forget " to take out a shoot- 

 ing licence, or fail to " make friends " with all keepers, gillies, 

 beaters, ponies, and dogs. He should take a good supply of 

 cartridges wherever he goes, and if it be exhausted, then let 

 him be punctilious to return what he borrows ; for there are 

 shooters who make it a practice not to take enough, and supply 

 the deficiency by borrowing from the cartridge bags of their 

 friends, and never offer to replace them. Such soon get known 

 and laughed at for their petty meanness, and no one would 

 wish to be classed with them. 



Ninthly, — He should be willing to sacrifice his own sport, 

 if thereby several others are benefited, and the following story 

 well illustrates our meaning. Some seasons since, when on a 

 visit to Sir Edward Lawson, at Hall Barn, in Bucks, it 

 happened Mr. Archie Steuart-Wortley was one of a cheery 

 party made up of six guns. In the course of the day we came 

 to a beat near "the march" (even when writing of English 

 sport, we prefer the use of the Scotch word), which held a 

 great many pheasants, numbers of which would at times fly 



