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CHAPTER I 

 THOUGHTS ON HUNTERS 



AN ANALYSIS OF WHAT A HUNTER 

 SHOULD BE 



Probably no man ever formed a more just 

 estimate of what should constitute the qualifica- 

 tions of a hunter than the late Major Whyte 

 Melville, when he wrote the following lines : 



" A head like a snake, a skin like a mouse, 

 An eye like a woman's, bright, gentle, and brown. 

 With a back and loins, that would carry a house. 

 And quarters to lift him smack over a town." 



Embodied in the preceding lines, will be found 

 what may be termed, not inaptly, the essentials 

 of a hunter, and this admirable summary of 

 Whyte Melville's has been repeatedly recounted 

 by sportsmen, in almost every part of the world. 



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