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do very well. In Wales and Ireland I always had 

 a lot of this cut every year at the proper time, 

 stacked and thatched. Your kennel must he kept 

 scrupulously clean and washed out every morning. 



Feeding is a very important thing, and must be 

 judiciously and regularly done, and always at the 

 same hour ; but as every one has his own ideas on 

 this point, I will say no more about it. 



The place, of all others, for good wild shooting 

 and fishing is Ireland. Here a man with moderate 

 means may have all he wants — cheap house-rent ; 

 taxes few ; living at much less cost than in England, 

 and sport to his heart's content. It is, I admit, 

 a wild life ; but then it is a very pleasant, happy 

 one. 



The sea-voyage is nothing : those splendid 

 steamers which run from Holyhead to Kingstown 

 cross in a few hours, and you hardly, unless there 

 is heavy weather, know you are at sea. 



For the man whose heart is in sport, I know 

 of no place so well adapted as Ireland. Wild 

 ducks, snipe, grouse, and capital woodcock shooting ; 

 hares, rabbits, partridges and pheasants ; all that 

 you want is the ground properly looked after. 



Wherever you go, if economy is your object, you 

 must never attempt hand-reared pheasants ; the cost 

 of feeding is very great, and, as I have often and 



