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FIELD ‘SPORTS IN ART. 219 
much as scratches an outline of his favourite dog on it. 
In these landscape days we put our pictures on the 
walls only, and no imagination into the things we han- 
dle and use. A good deal of etching might be done on 
a gun, most of it being metal, while more metal could be 
easily inlaid for the purpose. Etching, I suppose, is the 
right word; at all events, designs, records of actual 
sporting feats, or outlines of favourite sporting places— 
nooks in the woods, falls of the stream, deep combes of 
the hills—could be cut in with aquafortis. So many 
draw or paint nowadays, and in this manner they could 
make some use of their skill, drawing perhaps for those 
who only understand the use of cartridge-paper when it 
has gunpowder inside it. Sportsmen see the very best 
of scenery, and come across old hollow trunks and curi- 
ous trees, effects, and ‘bits ’ of every kind, from a twisted 
hawthorn to an antlered stag; if they could get an artis- 
tic friend to see these, there would be some good gun- 
‘etchings done. 
