GERMANY 



By BARON DONALD SCHONBERG 



T N his sport the average German does not belie his Teutonic 

 ^ origin and his close relationship to his English brother. Sport 

 with him is not for show or for the pot, as with some Oriental and 

 other races. Like the Englishman, he is refined in his pleasure, 

 not cruel to animals, a thorough sportsman, who loves his sport for 

 its own sake. 



The average German goes shooting for neither show nor the pot. 

 He does not observe the latest fashion in knickerbocker breeches 

 and gaiters, nor is his gun of the most costly. On the other hand, 

 though less enterprising than his fellow -sportsmen in England in 

 the matter of either record bags at home or the pursuit of trophies 

 to the uttermost ends of the earth, he knows his business as a rule, 

 takes a keen interest in matters of natural history, and is, as often as 

 not, a fair ritie-shot. German keepers, too, who fulfil also the functions 

 of forest guards, are as a rule a first-rate set of men, and in Prussia, 

 at any rate, they get a good part of their education in the picked 

 battalions of the rifiemen, and then finish off at a forest school or 

 academy. 



Poaching is common, but severely dealt with by the law. In the 



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