COLONEL HAWKER'S ADVICE. 429 



interesting book which he has bequeathed to posterity, 

 on guns and shooting, the gallant Colonel speaks 

 to the young sportsmen of the future as follows, and 

 it will be unnecessary for us here to add a single 

 word to his wise and appropriate advice : 



" Never fast too long, and avoid, whenever you can, fag- 

 ging too hard; or when you come to middle age you will 

 most likely begin to feel it; perhaps so much so as to 

 become nervous, and lose your good shooting. Remember 

 this advice, and see who will last the longest: you who do, 

 or those who do not, follow it. Never go out with quite an 

 empty stomach to wait for wildfowl, particularly in the morning. 

 Never sit down in wet feet, or with wet clothes on any 

 part of the body: if a change is not to be had, keep in 

 motion, or go to bed till one can be procured."* 



* Instructions to Young Sportsmen, by Lieut.-Col. Peter Hawker, 

 3rd Edit., 1824, pp. 459 and 460. 



