132 DEER-STALKING 



have seriously asked myself this question, and have 

 come to the conclusion that, in spite of the proverbial 

 difficulty in pleasing everybody, it will be best in this 

 case to adopt what I hope will prove a happy medium 

 giving some information that may be useful to 

 beginners, though not needed by many of my readers, 

 and offering a few hints which may not be unacceptable 

 even to veterans of many a season's campaign. 



The elementary requirements of deer-stalking 

 * what shall we eat, what shall we drink, and where- 

 withal shall we be clothed ' and armed ? are to be 

 found treated of in various books which have been 

 written at different times, and not a season passes 

 without the appearance of a contribution to one or 

 other of the sporting papers or magazines relating to 

 these requirements, and containing, generally in an 

 amusing enough form, some simple rules which the 

 budding deer-stalker would do well to follow. 



But my chief reason for passing lightly over these 

 aspects of my subject is, because the beginner will 

 learn all that he requires to learn, in order to make a 

 start, from the stalker who accompanies him, far better 

 than he could from anything which he may acquire 

 from a perusal of these pages. 



Such matters, except perhaps the 'arming' of 

 our sportsman, may be called the 'trivialities' of deer- 



