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Be careful to keep anchovies in a small stone jar ; as an earthen 

 one might break with them, and spoil your clothes. 



An old sportsman, having thus far subsisted to- 

 lerably well, may, afterwards, with the help of his 

 gun or fishing-rod, be enabled to fare decently, and 

 enjoy good sport; while some poor helpless exotic 

 would have spurned the very soil of the place ; left 

 it in disgust, before he had killed a bird or a fish ; 

 and, as likely as not, be laid up and fleeced 'at the 

 next inn, and there saddled with some country apo- 

 thecary. 



To be as brief as I can, on this uninteresting, 

 though possibly useful, head, let me take a memo- 

 randum of the few portable articles that contribute 

 to the health and comfort of a travelling sportsman. 



A medicine chest is sometimes out of the ques- 

 tion ; otherwise, a chemist would direct him better 

 than I could presume to do ; but, as I speak solely 

 by experience, I can, of course, speak with some con- 

 fidence, on the very few things of no bulk, which 

 may be here noted down, as likely to render him 

 essential service. But, before I name a single article, 

 I must take up, in my own defence, one observation, 

 lest that observation may be left as a powerful wea- 

 pon against me in the hands of those who are versed 

 in this subject, in which I do not presume to have 

 the slightest pretensions, further than personal ex- 

 perience. In short, I must premise with saying, 

 that, what would be an effectual remedy in one 

 constitution might not answer with another. And 



