180 THE SPORTSMAN IN FRANCE. 



some very disagreeable liberties with my 

 person. 



I have a letter by me at this moment 

 from an old sportsman, which tends to 

 corroborate my assertion ; and as the 

 gallant writer is as distinguished in the 

 jungle as in the field, he will not, I am 

 sure, be displeased at my here giving an 

 extract from his epistle, which was ad- 

 dressed to the late Mr. Manton. 



After an account of his several hunting 

 excursions, accompanied by a long list 

 of killed, wounded, and missing, the 

 Colonel goes on to say, — 



" It may be satisfactory to you to 

 know that I always preferred your double- 

 barrelled guns to any rifle piece. 



" Returning from Asseer Ghurr, in 

 April last, at a village in a very hilly 

 country, where it was next to impossible 

 to kill, I learned that in the short space 

 of four months above fifty people had 



