298 OUR FORESTS AND WOODLANDS 
increase greatly in number, as they soon do when 
their natural prolificness is left unchecked. The 
great Continental forests of Western Europe yield 
sport from wild boar, stags, roe-deer, as well as 
smaller game, while good mixed shooting is 
everywhere obtainable near the edges of the woods. 
That Sport and Forestry are compatible is duly 
recognised by the State abroad, which determines 
the head of big game to be retained and to be 
shot annually; and the shooting is often leased 
out on easy terms to the head-foresters in charge 
of the woods. 
In considering the compatibility of Sport and 
Forestry, it must be borne in mind that the term 
‘sport’ is not subject to any hard and fast, rigid 
definition. The idea is subject to modification 
from time to time, and even to complete change. 
Breech-loading guns and long-range rifles have en- 
tirely revolutionised shooting and altered the idea 
of a good day’s sport. Nowadays it has come to 
be less a question of the interest and enjoyment 
afforded by the day’s quest than of the net re- 
sult attained. This was recently very amusingly 
hit off (with quite another intention, however) 
by Punch in the Frenchman’s eager inquiry, ‘Hé 
