‘ARMA VIRUMQUE CANO’ 9! 
about game and shooting. I have known many A.’s 
and many B.’s, have learnt much from both, and I 
never could see why A. should undervalue or dis- 
believe in the undoubted qualities: of B., calling 
him pot-hunter, poacher, or ‘unsophisticated native 
gunner,’ nor why on earth B. should be so fond of 
writing to the ‘Field’ to abuse and ridicule A., 
denouncing him as effeminate, cruel, and ignorant of 
natural history or sport, and darkly hinting at his life 
of vice and dissipation, while denying him the energy 
to pursue it ; abusing the drives he has never taken 
part in, and the shooters he has never met, and making 
himself ridiculous and offensive on a subject which 
should be a bond of brotherhood between all classes 
of Englishmen. When the Marquis of Carabas (very 
wisely) invites B. to take part in the slaying of 200 brace 
of partridges or 1,000 pheasants in one day, I have 
never known B. to refuse to shoot with him or to meet 
his enemy A. If A. has had too much whisky and 
soda and rubicon besique the night before, he will get 
his eye wiped by B. at some of the high pheasants 
over the valley ; and if Lord Carabas is in doubt how 
to get that big lot of birds back from the boundary 
fields and how to realise them, he is likely to get as 
good an opinion from B. as from A. But when the 
birds Aave been brought back, and over the guns, A. 
