144 TRAVEL, ADVENTURE, AND SPORT. 



as far as stone and heather are concerned, you would, 

 by walking across the hillsides, do about as much 

 damage as the boot of the " masher " out for a stroll 

 does to the pavement of Piccadilly. There are many 

 hillsides I am acquainted with across which you 

 might march the 88th Regiment of Foot now the 

 " 14th Battalion, 13th Brigade, South- Western Irish, 

 Teck's Own Territorial " (Ballinasloe Bounders) 1 and 

 no one would ever discover they'd been there, barring 

 they left a few empty whisky-bottles on the road 

 not an improbable contingency. The selfishness 

 and narrow-mindedness of sportsmen in preventing 

 tourists and others from crossing their forests on 

 which, presumably, " Spectator " is descanting has 

 been written of ad nauseam for the last twenty years ; 

 and here we have a gentleman contributing an article 

 on the subject to a presumably widely read weekly 

 paper, the editor of which appears satisfied therewith, 

 or it would have found its way to the waste-paper 

 basket, and he absolutely does not know what the 

 argument all these long years has been about. An 

 evening paper made its appearance some time ago, 



1 The simplicity of such a title must recommend itself to 

 every one. We are credibly informed that there is not now 

 a colonel in the service who could not, if requested to do 

 so, give the correct designation of his regiment without a 

 moment's hesitation a marvellous improvement on olden 

 times, when no one ever knew the difference between the 

 41st and 42d, and when we always mixed up the 71st with 

 the 74th. 



