270 SPORTING FOR MEN OF MODERATE MEANS 



It is a large house and servants that swallow up 

 one's income. A bachelor sportsman only requires 

 a sitting-room and a bed-room, with his tub in 

 some corner or outhouse close at hand. 



There is nothing I like more than a real sports- 

 man's den. There he has his guns, his rods, his 

 different sporting paraphernalia, his pipes, his 

 cigars, his powder and ammunition, and everything 

 handy. As I am writing this I can see all my 

 traps around me. I am rather proud of my sanc- 

 tum. I have a place for everything, and every- 

 thing in its place. My books — of which I have 

 some hundreds of volumes — are before me. On 

 one side of the wall are all my fishing things ; over 

 the mantelpiece, on racks, are my guns, and a 

 goodly collection of pipes ; in a three-cornered cup- 

 board all my ammunition, and some hundreds of 

 cartridges ; in another cupboard are cigars, and 

 odds and ends ; in another a lot of nets, and a sort 

 of fixed washing-stand ; two luxurious old-fashioned 

 arm-chairs on either side of my fire-place, into 

 which I can pop and take a smoke when I am 

 tired of writing. And at this present moment 

 there are three setters and a couple of Dandie 

 Dinmonts curled up on the hearth-rug before my 

 fire ; but my dogs are always clean in their habits ; 

 if not, they would not find a place in my room. 



