276 SPORTING FOR MEN OF MODERATE MEANS 



There is capital fishing and shooting to be got at 

 Killaloe, County Clare. I have had rare sport 

 there. It is by going about and making inquiries 

 that I have always been able to have good sport, and 

 find out favoured spots for woodcock and snipe. 



Hundreds of men are taken in by answering 

 advertisements, which set forth the fishing or shoot- 

 ing in glowing colours — how miserably have they 

 been deceived ! You may depend the only way is 

 to go over the ground yourself with a brace of good 

 dogs, always taking the contrary direction which 

 you are told to go. If you cannot spare the time, 

 let some one do it for you that you can thoroughly 

 trust. 



I remember once a gentleman taking a salmon 

 river in Norway, paying, of course, in advance ; 

 when he got there the river was dry, or nearly so. 

 On expostulating with the agent, and demanding his 

 money back, he was told that the proprietor really 

 could not be answerable for the water, and that he 

 had better stop till rain came, and that, probably, 

 the fish would come with it. 



A man in these days cannot be too sharp in 

 taking either shooting or fishing ; how many are 

 " done " in hiring Scotch moors ! They answer a 

 flowing advertisement, take it haphazard, pay their 

 money, and when they get there find there are no 



