Quail Shooting 



is among the dreary and unsatisfying 

 things of Hfe. It may cultivate or 

 increase animal strength and endur- 

 ance, but it is apt at the same time to 

 weaken and distort the disposition 

 and temper. The medicine is not only 

 distasteful, but fails in efficacy unless 

 it is mingled with the agreeable and 

 healing ingredients of mental recrea- 

 tion and desirable objects of endeavor. 

 I am convinced that nothing meets 

 all the requirements of rational, 

 healthful outdoor exercise more com- 

 pletely than quail shooting. It seems 

 to be so compounded of wholesome 

 things that it reaches, with vitalizing 

 effect, every point of mental or physi- 

 cal enervation. Under the prohibi- 

 tions of the law, or the restraints of 

 sporting decency, or both, it is permit- 

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