tSE DIARY: WITH A FEW SUGGESTIONS HOW TO KEEP IT METHODICALLY. 



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Put down your exact bag at the close of the day. Weigh any unusually large bird or 

 animal you may shoot. A rough sketch of a district with which you are not well acquainted 

 will do much to impress the place on your memory. A photograph would add untold interest. 



For ease of reference an index will prove invaluable. 



Make a memo, of any good bit of work done by your dog ; as also any quick run the 

 boat may make : and record whether you have been shooting well or indifferently, and try 

 to account for the fact. 



These are but a few in the long list of items which go to make up a readable diary ; 

 the talent of only too many of our sportsmen will easily supply what I have failed to suggest. 



Above all things the diary should be kept with some method, and to this end the 

 pages might be conveniently ruled in something like the following way : — 



SUGGESTED RULING OF THE DAILY PAGE. 



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