TWENTY YEARS' SNIPE-SHOOTING 



In 1899, at the Knickerbocker Press in New York, 

 there was printed a remarkable book with the above 

 title. As it was printed for private circulation only, 

 and no copies apparently were sent out for review, 

 it has escaped the notice of critics, and is probably 

 known to few readers beyond the immediate circle 

 of the writer's own friends amongst whom the book 

 was distributed. 



It is a volume of some 300 pages, consisting of 

 extracts from the journals of the late Mr J. J. 

 Pringle, a noted American snipe-shooter, and is 

 illustrated with twenty-four photographs. The 

 scene is laid at Oaklawn, Bayou Teche, in south- 

 west Louisiana, where for twenty seasons Mr 

 Pringle enjoyed some of the finest snipe-shooting 

 in the world. It is generally believed that the 

 largest bags of snipe made by a single gun have 

 been obtained in India, Ceylon, and Egypt, and 

 the remarkable bags made in Ireland by Colonel 

 John Peyton, as recorded by Sir R. Payne Gallwey 

 in his Fowler in Ireland, should not be overlooked ; 

 but all these are put completely in the shade by 

 the results obtained in Louisiana by Mr Pringle 

 between the years 1867- 1887, when the country 

 over which he sported was a perfect paradise for 

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