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and farm a little. He must at all events have a housekeeper, 

 and a man to row him and help him in his shooting excur- 

 sions, and he may just as well employ their spare time use- 

 fully as not. But if he can fall in with a gentleman or 

 respectable peasant in a good district, who will board and 

 lodge him for about Is. 6d. a day at first (and such a place 

 a single man will be able to get), I am sure he will find this 

 his cheapest plan. There will be one great advantage in 

 this plan, it will give him a sort of standing and introduc- 

 tion into the country, while he is acquiring the language, 

 and if he only gets himself liked, which he can easily 

 do if he behaves civilly and courteously to the gentle- 

 men, and liberally to the peasants, he will find no difficulty in 

 getting on. 



It is not easy to recommend the choice of a locality for 

 a man whose sole object is sporting. The best partridge 

 shooting is in the south of Sweden, and we had none in 

 Wermland, where I spent the most of my time. Perhaps, 

 also, the best open black game and woodcock shooting is in 

 the south ; but I fancy a stranger will now find some diffi- 

 culty in obtaining sport there, as most of the proprietors 

 fish and shoot themselves. Duck and snipe shooting 

 can be met with throughout the whole country in good 

 localities. 



But in Wermland, if a man is only settled in a good 

 locality, he will meet with every kind of game peculiar to 

 Sweden (before the severe winter of 1860 cut them all 

 off, we had excellent partridge shooting in the south of the 

 province), and in many places, especially towards the north, 

 very good trout and grayling fishing, and even lake trout, 

 besides nearly every other kind of fish which is met with in 

 the southern waters. I speak of this province from expe- 

 rience. I made many good friends there, and I am cer- 

 tain any other Englishman can do the same. He will 

 here find the gentlemen kind and courteous, the peasants 

 civil, and willing to oblige, and besides this (which is now 

 far from being the case in the south of Sweden), he will 



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