SPORTING RIFLES AND THEIR USE 367 



If I have written anything in this chapter that may 

 prove to be of the smallest assistance or in any way a 

 guidance to my brothers of the sporting rifle, then am 

 I fully content. I am glad to think that there still 

 remain portions of the earth's surface whereon, amid 

 wild natural forest or on bare and rocky mountain- 

 side, are still to be found some wild fauna carnivor- 

 ous or graminivorous, pachydermatous or hair-covered, 

 tusked, horned, or antlered, as the case may be. 



There will also continue to be bred, unless I am 

 much mistaken, a large class of our island people with 

 whom some form of the chase is not only a natural 

 instinct, but a healthy and deep-seated passion ; there- 

 fore will these men continue, in reason and in season, 

 to hunt and to kill these same wild fauna, as oppor- 

 tunity, occupation, and bodily capacity shall serve. 

 That in so doing they will learn to study and to ap- 

 preciate the wild life and natural beauty of mountain, 

 field, and forest ; will develop many useful and manly 

 qualities of mind and body ; and will gain much 

 health and enjoyment in the process, is the confident 

 and sympathetic expectation of the writer. 



THE END 



BILLING AND SONS, LTD., PRINTERS, OUILDFORD 



