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CHAPTER III 



THE PRACTICE OF DEER-STALKING 



ANYONE who undertakes to write an essay on the 

 practice of deer-stalking must be prepared to encounter 

 some amount of criticism from a double standpoint. 

 He will either be censured for giving too elementary 

 a character to his treatise, or else for furnishing his 

 readers with facts and information with which they 

 are already acquainted, and with giving advice which 

 is not required. In other words, the writer should 

 begin by asking himself this question : For whom is 

 this essay, or article, or treatise intended ? Am I going 

 to write for the beginner, for the man who has never 

 been out stalking who knows absolutely nothing 

 about it, and who wants to learn how the thing ought 

 to be done ; or should I address myself to the 

 experienced sportsman who has, or thinks he has, 

 nothing to learn, but who might like to while away a 

 spare half-hour by taking up the volume of ' Fur and 

 Feather ' which treats of his favourite sport ? Now I 



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