TWENTY YEARS' SNIPE-SHOOTING 311 



I shot with only one gun at a time, and had no 

 loader. From much practice I became very expert 

 and quick in loading. Keeping the cartridges 

 loose in an open pocket, I could slip them in with 

 great rapidity." 



Though much exposed to wet and cold, this 

 intrepid sportsman was never prevented from 

 shooting by ailment of any kind, except once, in 

 the season of 1878- 1879, when he had a severe attack 

 of rheumatic gout, complicated with malaria, but 

 that did not prevent his killing that season 3085 

 snipe in twenty-nine days. 



Mr Pringle's journal is a remarkable one, and 

 snipe-shooters into whose hands it may chance to 

 fall will do well to peruse it, and profit by the 

 writer's experience, though they can never hope to 

 meet with his success. 



