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entered human lungs, and which seems to fill 

 you with the concentrated strength of a dozen 

 giants; when all the beasts of the forest are 

 yours, and you have the cattle on a thousand 

 hills to pick and choose from, at the mercy of 

 your double-barrelled rifle ; when you feel — and 

 here is the chief charm of the situation — that the 

 whole responsibility of your success, personal safety, 

 and life even depends upon yourself alone — then 

 you will have realised one of the highest orders 

 of physical enjoyment known among men. Except 

 in a very limited degree it has never been my 

 lot to taste this superlative of life, but I will give 

 if the reader will bear with me, one or two 

 examples of my brief experience. 



Very many years ago, long before "'Arry" had 

 extended his rambles as far as Norway, I found 

 myself, with two natives of the district, on one of 

 the wildest and most unfrequented fjelds of that 

 wild and stern country. I had gone there that 

 day to try to gain the summit of a precipitous 



