82 WITH BOAT ANi) GtN IN THE YANGTZE VALLEV. 



"The importance of these hints cannot be overestimated, involving as they do not 

 only immunity from accidents but the preservation of life. It is the obvious and imperative 

 duty of all true sportsmen to inculcate their observance upon all who appreciate the 

 pleasure to be derived from field-sports. — Speedy. 



It is impossible to imagine any chagrin more poignant, any regret more harrowing, or 

 any sorrow more lasting than such as must be experienced by the causer of a gun accident. 



Of greater precept, perhaps, than polish are the following verses which hang framed 

 in the late King Edward VII's gun room at Sandringham, and which may well be held 

 constantly in mind by every one who carries a gun : — 



" Never, never let your gun 

 Pointed be at any one. 

 That it may not loaded be 

 Matters not the least to me. 



You may kill or you may miss, 



But at all times think of this, 



All the pheasants ever bred 



Won't repay for one man dead." 





