FOR YOUNG SHOOTERS 67 



' Dear Mr. - , I want to tell you that, 

 although I am what one of your friends called ' a 

 solid woman/ and ought to feel deeply hurt by what 

 you said about ladies at lunch, yet I liked that 

 article the best. I think it was awfully good. But 

 don't you think you are all rather hard on ladies 

 at shooting-boxes? My idea is that there ought 

 to be some new rules about shooting-parties. At 

 present, ladies are asked to amuse the men at 

 least that is my experience and it is rather hard 

 they may not sometimes go on the moors, if they 

 want to. But, at the same time, I quite understand 

 that they are horribly in the way, and I am not 

 surprised that the men don't want women about 

 them when they are shooting. But couldn't they 

 arrange to have a day now and then, when they 

 could shoot all the morning, and devote themselves 

 to amusing the women on the moors after lunch ? 

 Otherwise, I think there ought to be a rule that no 

 women are to be invited to shooting-boxes. It is 

 generally very dull for the women, and I feel sure 

 the men would be quite as happy without them. I 

 suppose the host might want his wife to be there, 

 to look after things ; but she ought to strike, and ask 

 her lady-friends to do the same; and then they 



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