INTRODUCTION 7 



sex, I fear I shall not find many readers 

 among its members ; and perhaps among 

 them some whom the one paper which 

 specially relates to them will greatly offend. 

 Only recently I was reading a lady's article 

 on deer and pig driving, which contained 

 an expression of thankfulness that her 

 mankind were of that unselfish sort which 

 is willing to admit her to a share of their 

 pleasures. Then she went on to describe 

 a roe gracefully bounding down the hill- 

 side till she raised her gun, and ''it fell, 

 to bound no more." The true sportsman 

 would have felt, I consider, at least one 

 pang of regret at taking the life of a 

 creature so much more beautiful and harm- 

 less than himself; and his satisfaction 

 might have justly lain in the fact that its 

 death was at any rate so instantaneous as 



