8 INTRODUCTION 



to be practically painless. Into such trifles, 

 however, the lady (?, save the mark !) did 

 not enter ; but hastened on to send a bullet 

 into a boar, which, however, got away, 

 "leaving only a broad blood-trail." This 

 time she does express regret, not, however, 

 for her victim's sufferings, but for her lost 

 bacon. Into this subject, however, I have 

 entered elsewhere ; so will only say here 

 that I do not write for women who shoot, 

 whilst for the benefit of those who do not 

 and of the o^eneral reader I have endeav- 

 oured, with the exception of the articles 

 already referred to, to write in such a 

 style that the papers shall help them to 

 pass an Idle hour ; and with this view I 

 have also introduced three or four de- 

 scriptions of travel and colonial experience 

 only indirectly relating to sport, 



