SHOOTING 



AND 



SALMON FISHING 



CHAPTER I 



GENERAL REMARKS 



We will suppose it to be the end of July, and then ever 

 since the close of the previous season all keen sportsmen 

 will have had periodical attacks of anxiety as to the pros- 

 pects of the one to come. In our variable climate the 

 weather of the past five months, coupled with the reports 

 received from foresters and keepers in many a lonely glen, will 

 have been the foundation of numerous happy talks between 

 brother sportsmen ; but by this date, whether it relate to 

 Highland or Lowland game, each lover of the gun will be able 

 to form a fairly accurate idea of the sport awaiting him ; and, 

 moreover, those who are to be afoot on "the twelfth" will 

 already be smelling heather, though there are perhaps but 

 few who will join in the fervent wish expressed by a City 

 gentleman who had just made a fortune and meant spending 

 it, and who exclaimed to his friends one sultry day at the end 

 of July: "Well, thank goodness, in less than three weeks I 

 shall be in Scotland on the moors and amongst the longtails ! " 



As in a book of sport the word sportsman must inevitably 

 be frequently used, the author thinks it as well to begin by 

 stating what in his humble opinion a " good man " should be. 



Firstly, — In carrying and using a gun he should be ab- 

 solutely safe for everyone with him in the field, himself 

 included. 



