BULLETS AND THEIR BILLETS 



THE man whose purpose in carrying a 

 rifle through the woods begins and ends 

 with the death of an animal, will resent 

 the introduction of matters irrelevant, 

 and is advised to leave these pages to 

 him who counts the antlers but an item 

 in a very various bag. Before the latter 

 I expose such divers spoils of the chase 

 as memory has chosen to bear home- 

 ward to her modest hall, attempting no 

 apology for divagations beyond the 

 limits which my title would seem to 

 impose. 



Fitting it is, at the outset, to pay one's 

 humble duty to the great goddess of for- 

 tune, for surely no one will deny indebt- 

 edness to her in all that concerns the 



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