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entered human lungs, and which seems to fill 

 you with the concentrated strength of a dozen 

 giants ; when all the beasts of the forest are 

 yours, and you have the cattle on a thousand 

 hills to pick and choose from, at the mercy of 

 your double-barrelled rifle ; when you feel — and 

 here is the chief charm of the situation — that the 

 whole responsibility of your success, personal safety, 

 and life even depends upon yourself alone — then 

 you will have realised one of the highest orders 

 of physical enjoyment known among men. Except 

 in a very limited degree it has never been my 

 lot to taste this superlative of life, but I will give, 

 if the reader will bear with me, one or two 

 examples of my brief experience. 



Very many years ago, long before " 'Arry " - had 

 extended his rambles as far as Norway, I found 

 myself, with two natives of the district, on one of 

 the wildest and most unfrequented fjclds of that 

 wild and stern country. I had gone there that 

 day to try to gain the summit of a precipitous 



