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idealist by honest country gentlemen, who confine 

 their reading to an occasional peep at the ' Times,' 

 and an intimate quoting acquaintance with the 

 novels of Mr. Surtees. Often shocks his com- 

 panions by telling them he really doesn't care 

 much about killing things, and would just as soon 

 let them off. However, he shows a perfectly 

 proper anger if he misses frequently. Is not un- 

 likely .to be an authority on sheep and oxen, and 

 may, perhaps, be accepted as the Conservative 

 Candidate for his county division, dumb but indig- 

 nant county magnates finding that he expresses 

 their views better than they can do it themselves. 

 Don't talk to him about sport. Try him with 

 books, interesting articles in the magazines, and so 

 forth. 



(4.) The Soldier Shot. This kind is generally a 

 captain, dresses well, but not gaudily, and smokes 

 big cigars. There seems to be a general idea that 

 a man who can teach privates to shoot targets 

 must be able to shoot game himself. Yet the 

 Soldier Shot misses birds quite beautifully. He 

 will often have shot big game in India with an 

 accuracy that increases in proportion to the 

 number of miles that separate him from the scene 



