Leaves From a Sportsmans Diary

arious convictions, but give my own ideas, wishing them only to be accepted for what they may be deemed worth. To become perfect in the use of the gun, you must commence your education at an early date in life. Of course some pupils are more apt than others, while dunces are to be found occupying as prominent a place in the study of the science of gunnery as are to be discovered among the students of algebra or Euclid, Greek or Latin. This, I think, can generally be traced in both cases to the result of a natural in- competency for their tasks, their hearts not being in their work. Believe me, there is no more a royal road to excellence in the art of shooting than there is to any other study, and to become a marksman of note, you must commence your initiatory instructions with the simplest of lessons, gradually advancing till you attain such excellence that nothing on the wing or on foot can escape your deadly aim, provided always that it be within range. HAND AND EYE TOGETHER. 37 After this brief preamble, I will endeavour, in as few words as possible, to come to the point. A person who reads well, does not puzzle over each letter that composes a word, or each word that makes up a sentence, although the last may be as tortuous as can be selected in Browning's or Tennyson's works. No ! The moment the eye passes over it, the mind embraces the meaning of the author that you are perusing. With writing it is the same. The formation of a letter, spelling...