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the matter plain? It is because the’prawns used 
in angling for salmon are red that they are such’ 
a deadly lure; not because the fish recognize 
them as a dainty article of food with which they 
are acquainted elsewhere. 
LADY GUNNERS. 
Personal observation leads me to conclude 
that, both in field and forest, lady gunners have 
been in evidence more than ever during this 
season. In a short time it will be the excep¬ 
tion and not the rule for ladies to stay at home 
while their brothers and husbands are storming 
the citadels of the grouse, the blackcock and 
the deer. I notice with much interest that the 
names of many of them appear on the mem¬ 
bership lists of the rapidly multiplying minia¬ 
ture rifle clubs all over the country. It was less 
than forty years ago that, for the first time, a 
woman took up her position on the moor, gun 
in hand, along with enthusiastic shooters of the 
sterner sex. From that day to this the health¬ 
giving sport has been gradually gaining fair 
recruits, and the number continues to increase 
from year to year. It was in the classic fast¬ 
nesses adjoining Achnacarry, Inverness-shire, 
that the first lady stalker of whom we have 
definite and authentic information, Lady Sey¬ 
mour, put her fortune to the touch, and, in the 
autumn of 184s. succeeded in bringing down “a 
great many stags.” Her example has since 
been sedulously followed by many of the highest 
ladies in the land. The Marchioness of Bread- 
albane and a number of other peeresses have 
placed quite a large number of splendid heads 
to their credit. The biggest stalking bag ever 
made in Guisachan in the course of one day was 
sixteen stags, five of which fell to the rifle of 
the late Lady Tweedmouth. The Duchess of 
Bedford succeeded on one occasion in shooting 
fifty-seven pheasants with fifty-eight cartridges, 
and on another twenty-three pheasants and a 
hare with twenty-five cartridges. Among ladies 
who have not only achieved distinction at home 
with their guns and rifles, but also tackled sue- 
cessfully big game in India and elsewhere may 
be mentioned Mrs. Alan Gardner, Miss Lilian 
Elphinstone, and Miss Evelyn Mackenzie. All 
sportsmen will readily agree that the presence 
of ladies in a shooting party will add consider¬ 
ably to its enjoyment; and it will also be frank¬ 
ly admitted that the shooting skill of the “fail- 
intruders” will compare very favorably to that 
of the other members of the expedition.—Coun¬ 
ty Gentleman. 
WHEN THE FEVER’S IN THE BLOOD. 
Now the veteran fisherman 
Dreams of piscatory loot, 
Overhauls a box of tackle. 
Sticks a patch upon the boot; 
Sorts a mass of tangled hooks and 
Oils the automatic reel. 
Lays out woolen shirt and stockings 
Cleans the inside of the creel. 
Then the lancewood rod is tested. 
Is revarnished and rewound. 
Fill’d the cheering little bottle, 
And the drinking cup is found. 
.The old canvas coat is tattered, 
But will last a season hence. 
And the khaki pants are mended 
Where they caught upon the fence. 
Next the sportsman knots the leaders, 
Buys a new enameled line. 
Repairs he the basket harness 
With the little piece of twine. 
Fills the old fly-book to bursting 
With decoys of latest type; 
Minds the matches and tobacco 
And the fragrant corncob pipe. 
But the days are long and weary 
When the fever’s in the blood. 
And the icy brooks are waiting 
For the springtime and the flood. 
■When the kit is packed and ready, 
And the patient angler dreams 
Of the sunshine on the meadows 
And the sport along the streams. 
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