INTRODUCTION 5 



the following papers I have confined myself 

 strictly to matters that I do know somethlng 

 about. I have endeavoured not only to 

 provide something to interest individually 

 the hunting and driving man, as well as 

 the shooter, whether with rifle or gun, but 

 as a rule to write in such a manner as to 

 interest all sportsmen, even if the subject 

 matter of any particular paper should not 

 be that sport In which he takes his chief 

 pleasure. 



It has been remarked to me that two of 

 the papers on rifle-shooting (Nos. 10 and 

 23) are too highly technical. Technical 

 they certainly are, but I venture to think 

 they will not on that account be less 

 welcome to sportsmen. To begin with, 

 I, like most others, have passed through 

 that stage of my shikar career when I was 



