FOR YOUNG SHOOTERS 37 



CHAPTEE VII 



OF SMOKING 



THE subject of lunch, my dear young friends, has 

 now been exhausted. We have done, for the time, 

 with poetry, and descend again to the ordinary 

 prose of every-day shooting. Yet stay before we 

 proceed further, there is one matter, apart from the 

 mere details of sport, which may be profitably 

 considered in this treatise. It is the divine, the 

 delightful subject of 



SMOKING 



First, I ask, do you know (1) the man who 

 never smokes from the night of August 11 up to 

 the night of February 1 in the following year, for 

 fear of injuring his sight and his shooting nerve? 

 (2) the host who forbids all smoking amongst the 

 guests assembled at his house for a shooting- 

 party ? 



