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should, surely, be enough to satisfy any but a 

 glutton. 



Greed and gluttony are at all times detestable, 

 and a greedy or selfish sportsman is a person 

 to be avoided as a most intolerable nuisance. 

 With the man who never knows when to stay his 

 hand no one can sympathize ; he is universally 

 disliked by all true sportsmen. Such individuals 

 are frequently excellent shots and good fishermen, 

 but they should none the less be kept at arm's 

 length. Who has not, at some time or other, 

 been unfortunate enough to find himself placed 

 alongside some jealous shot, who, not content 

 with shooting the birds which rise to his own 

 gun, persistently shoots those on the right and 

 left of him throughout the day ? I have more 

 than once unloaded my gun, and carried it under 

 my arm, on such occasions, but the Graball family 

 are not easily abashed. So it is by the river-side : 

 they will not scruple to fish or, worse still, wade 

 through the very water another person may be, 

 by right of previous occupation, entitled to. It 

 may be charitable to attribute such conduct to 

 over-keenness for sport, but it is all the same in 

 reality none other than over-caddishness, and due 

 to an utter absence of those attributes which are 

 usually described as gentlemanly feeling, and 

 which are so characteristic of a true sportsman. 



When ' the leaves are paling yellow or kindling 

 into red,' and the hoar-frost is glistening on the 

 grass in the rays of the autumn sun, the grayling, 



