120 SHOOTING : 



Let not your bounty be considered fee, 



The thorough Sportsman's badge should ever be 



Unostentatious liberality : 



The few loose shillings you will never miss, 



Confer on them as much of happiness 



As the fine sport you follow does on you j 



For all feel bliss but in proportion to 



Their wants, as to them they seem great or few ; } 



And will augment their meed, if here below 



They try the like on others to bestow. 



If in your acts to Sportsmen's you'd conform, 

 Without explicit leave, the standing corn 

 Must not be tried ; quick from the lure retreat, 

 Nor let your dog's four more than your two feet 

 Shed the ripe grain ; I own, if you should drive 

 A covey in, temptation's great, but strive 

 Against it ; let this thought your bosom warm, 

 If I can do no good, I'll do no harm. 



