. Pen and pencil sketches; being reminiscences during eighteen years' residence in Bengal. N AND PENCIL SKETCHES. CHAPTER X. Snipe shooting—Epistle on snipe shooting, from Ned CopperCap, Esq., to George Trigger—George Triggers reply toNed Copper Cap—Black partridge. Si sine amore jocisqueNil est jucundum, vivas in amore jocisque. —Horace. If nothing appears to you delightful without love andsports, then live in sports and love. I LOVE shooting. It is enjoyed in tlie open air. Itremoves one from the vicinity of flat-roofed, candle-pillared, sun-dried, brick-built, mulligatawny look-ing houses.
. Pen and pencil sketches; being reminiscences during eighteen years' residence in Bengal. N AND PENCIL SKETCHES. CHAPTER X. Snipe shooting—Epistle on snipe shooting, from Ned CopperCap, Esq., to George Trigger—George Triggers reply toNed Copper Cap—Black partridge. Si sine amore jocisqueNil est jucundum, vivas in amore jocisque. —Horace. If nothing appears to you delightful without love andsports, then live in sports and love. I LOVE shooting. It is enjoyed in tlie open air. Itremoves one from the vicinity of flat-roofed, candle-pillared, sun-dried, brick-built, mulligatawny look-ing houses. You pursue it alone, or, in the societyof a friend, equally well. Occasionally it is (Iallow) rather hot work, but to a man whose parti-cular taste may lead him to the viewing andenjoying the rays of that great luminary, the sun,shooting affords him the very best opportunity. Agood days snipe shooting is however, in my opinion,sufficiently exciting to keep away all thoughts andfidgetings about either his power, influence oreffects. As yet old Phcebus has behaved with great Jf /. SNIPE SHOOTING. i73 liberality and kindness towards me, nor has heever even shown an inclination in his hottestmoments to qnarrel. He has now, for some yearspast, thrown his burning beams pretty freely aboutmy head when in pursuit of the snipe, and up tothis day I am unscathed. This, however, says nothing, for the old proverbhath it— What is ones mans meat is another manspoison. But physicians coidd, if they would, provedistinctly that when the system is under one par-ticular excitement it is not subject to my impunity may be due to my enthu-siastic fondness for the sport. To pursue snipe effectually, the sportsman requiresmany qualifications, among which I note the follow-ing : unremitting fag and bottom, fortitude andsome constitution. He should be almost impreg-nable to the approaches of diseases ; to bogs, swamps,water, rain, sun, and chick-weed no stranger; beable to put up,
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