Sporting Notes in the Far East. r 9 



the thirst is to soak your clothes in salt water. I myself have tried 

 it ; as when one day after losing my way out shooting, I reeled down 

 to the beach with broken water-bottle, I plumped myself down 

 clothes and all into the sea, and I can assure the reader it had a 

 most beneficial effect, on my then " unsatiable " thirst. 



One word anent smoking. To see a man smoking a pipe as he 

 trudges after game, is not so objectionable a sight, as the picture of 

 the Nimrod (?) who constantly keeps a briar root stuck in the corner 

 of his mouth at the covert side : but nevertheless it is a great pity, 

 that some people cannot deny themselves on these occasions. 



How many are the opportunities lost through the " horrid 

 nuisance that bird getting up at that moment, I was just stopping 

 to light my pipe ! " or again, the dozens of shots that are missed 

 from that " confounded baccy smoke getting in my eye ! " how- 

 ever, those who indulge in this habit out shooting, should always 

 endeavour to keep their pipes (if they shoot from the right 

 shoulder) in the left hand corner of their mouths ; or assuredly it 

 will get in the way in bringing the head down to the gunstock. 

 And then there is the final excuse "just like my luck, my pipe 

 was in the wrong side of my mouth ! " 



MORAL. When out shooting keep your pipe for the luncheon 

 hour ; or better still leave it at home altogether. 



I am afraid it will not be hard to see, that I myself am not a 

 smoker at any time. 



