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should be that lie could sleep from November to March, 

 wake up about April, and never sleep again till November 

 came round. 



To enjoy Sweden thoroughly, a man should visit the 

 country early in May, and leave it in the end of October, 

 and I will safely say that if two comrades hired a little 

 cottage up in a good district in North Wermland, spent the 

 season there, and returned to England every winter, they 

 could enjoy themselves as much as any two men in the 

 world, and get some capital sporting. The difference in 

 the expense of this, and spending the winter here, would 

 be little more than the cost of the journey to England and 

 back. They would leave their cottage and all their traps 

 very safely in charge of a peasant, and although they would 

 not enjoy that " social distinction " which the renting of a 

 Scottish moor (according to the editor of the " Saturday 

 Review ") confers upon a man, they would have some rat- 

 tling good sport, and the sportsman with about 100 a 

 year would very probably at the end of the season be able to 

 compare books with the rich English grouse- shooter, who 

 had paid 200 a year for the mere rent of his moor. But 

 the Saturday Reviewer was not altogether wrong, for let 

 the sport be what it may in a foreign land, it will always 

 want the charm of home association to complete it. And 

 although I have killed more snipe in one day in the north of 

 Europe than I could perhaps bag in England in a week, 

 and more wild fowl in one night's flight-shooting in Aus- 

 tralia than I could well carry home, I have never felt half 

 the real pleasure in the sport that I used to do when wan- 

 dering in bygone days with no one but my old guide in the 

 wild solitude of the Crowland fen. Be this, however, as .it 

 may, there is a wide field open here to the enthusiastic 

 sportsman if he only once comes to know the country the 

 grand secret, after all ; it is easily reached from England, and 

 quite as accessible to men of moderate means as to their 

 richer brethren, who are now able to monopolize the best of 

 the sporting at home. 



The English reader who has only associated Sweden with 



