XXIII 

 DEAD WEIGHT 



1 .^OR years the question of reducing the 

 weight the sportsman, and especially 

 the stalker, has to carry, has been one which 

 I have been trying practically to solve. 

 This is the result of my experiments: — He 

 must carry In the pockets — handkerchief, 

 knife (with cartridge extractor on it), money, 

 shooting permit or licence, and, in my own 

 case, spectacles. (A watch Is only necessary 

 to those who cannot judge the time roughly 

 without, but it is Indispensable in driving, 



