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36,200 miles in doing so, adding in con- 

 clusion that "during these 40 seasons I 

 was God be praised for it never con- 

 fined to my bed by accident or sickness 

 one day." 



Shooting then called for the exercise 

 of other qualities than mere accuracy of 

 aim, and the man with the gun had to 

 possess both considerable bodily endurance 

 and a thorough knowledge of the ways 

 and habits of his quarry, if he looked to 

 make good bags in a literal sense for 

 the products of a day's shooting rarely 

 exceeded the normal capacity of a game- 

 bag. But one would be sorry to ask 

 many of the present generation of shooters 

 to walk the best part of a mile for every 

 head of game they killed, as Lord Malmes- 

 bury did. The demand is for larger and 

 easier-won results in these days, when one 

 gun has been known to kill 300,000 head 

 in some twenty-five years. 



Another of the old school was the 

 famous Colonel Peter Hawker, who 

 followed his dogs on the stubbles of Long- 



