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which the plutocratic sporting tenant of 

 our day would account a social impossi- 

 bility. They thought it no hardship, but 

 an agreeable variation of their normal 

 domesticities, to sleep in a wattled hut 

 in the high corrie or open moor, and 

 live on the produce, from day to day, of 

 the gun. 



Now, it is very different. Your 

 first- class sporting tenant — English or 

 American ; never Scottish or Irish, and 

 seldom of any of the continental peoples — 

 gives liberally for his privileges, and exacts 

 liberal advantages besides the bare right 

 to shoot. The lodge must be com- 

 modious — furnished, and kept almost up 

 to the standard of metropolitan modern 

 life. Electric lighting, garage for motor- 

 cars, facilities for yachting and salmon 

 fishing where practicable, and many 

 other luxuries, or, as some would say, 

 superfluities, are now looked upon as 

 indispensable ; while every department of 

 the internal economy of the house, 

 especially the culinary arrangements, 



