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as the covert side, and old clothes being more comfortable to walk in 

 than new, a rig for shooting or fishing lasts a long time. Give to each 

 man £10 worth of these clothes we tally up £1,500,000, which for wear 

 and tear will cost £225,000 a year. Of this I shall charge one-fourth to 

 Fishing. 



Now to bring all these calculations into a concise form I set forth, in 

 accordance with the foregoing exemplification. 



The Totals of the Cost of Shooting and Fishing in the 

 United Kingdom. 



Thus do these two great branches of Sport nobly fill their places 

 in the roll of money-circulating mediums. 



As hunting is to the farmers, and as racing is to the townsfolk, so are 

 shooting and fishing to the cotter and the labourer. Into the pockets 

 of these poor and hard-worked people over one million and a half of 

 the money spent upon shooting and fishing finds its way. While, bar 

 rents and rail fares, the tradesmen and their ivorkmen get the balance. 



To many of those employed the wages and perquisites they receive 

 for caring the preserves and attending sportsmen are their sole support, 

 while to them all, the pay is a very material addition to whatever other 

 means they may have of livelihood. 



In addition to their regular wages and monetary gratuities, the gillies 

 and the crofters in Scotland get as perquisites every year nearly all the 

 hinds. These are shot a little before Christmas, and number from 

 4,500 to 5,000. Needless to say, this great quantity of good wholesome 

 meat contributes largely to the sustenance of these poor people during 

 the winter. 



During the process of making out these abstruse calculations and 

 apportioning the expenditure, I came across some details which I 

 daresay will interest some of my readers ; I shall therefore relate them. 



* Interest on money invested to provide for repairs, wear and tear. 

 Official returns of some of the above are made annually, but I had not an 

 opportunity of consulting any of them. — The Author. 



