142 SPORT. 



surface, nature's own commons, are becoming more 

 and more circumscribed and curtailed by increasing 

 population, and especially by the restless locomo- 

 tive energy of the Anglo-Saxon in conjunction with 

 his incurable addiction to sport. The demand is 

 greater than the supply. Norway is used up already, 

 India, America, and even Africa are all more or 

 less dwindling in their big-game-producing powers ; 

 greater and greater must be the sacrifices, further 

 and further afield the wanderings of those who 

 would find really at home and unsophisticated 

 the wild animal of the forest and hill. But even 

 amidst the crowded deserts of population and 

 civilisation in this over-cultivated earth such a 

 peaceful oasis is still here and there to be found. 

 When you have found it, and above all, have found 

 yourself at that delightful period of life which com- 

 bines all the activity of youth with the stamina of 

 sturdy manhood, alone or with one companion in 

 possession of it ; when you breathe the free pure 

 air which for perhaps hundreds of miles has never 



