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BRITISH FIELD SPORTS. 



Salmon-fishing Trout-fishing Grayling-fishing Rook-shoot- 

 ing Otter- hunting Partridge -shooting Nerves and 

 Straight Powder The Cruelty of Bad Shooting The 

 Cruelty of Long Shooting at Hares Allowance Cruelty to 

 Wounded Game Crippled Game Retrievers Pheasant- 

 shooting An Old-fashioned Day A Day with the Rabbits 

 in Downland Rabbit-shooting Snipe-shooting Fox- 

 hunting. 



To the all-round sportsman each season as it 

 arrives brings some new pleasure. While the 

 ash-buds are still black, the salmon are running 

 up the rivers, lusty and strong after their annual 

 trip to the sea. The spring water is icy cold, 

 and the bleak wind which, driving up the more 

 exposed reaches, sends the spray into one's face 

 as it whistles round the rocks, rattling the very 

 rod-rings, makes casting difficult and toilsome. 

 And there, just in the most unapproachable spot, 

 lies the ' taking place ' of the pool. At last a 

 temporary lull affords the long-wished-for chance 

 for getting out the requisite length of line ; the 

 fly goes out on its mission straight and true, and 

 just as it works round into the very point of the 



