A fig for the years! Why, youth and healing
At the end of your journey lie.
(Reprinted from Punch, Sept. 14, 1921, by kind permission of the Proprietors.)
II
STALKING IN ITS MOST ENJOYABLE
FORM
By far the most enjoyable form of stalking is to be one’s own stalker, but this can only be done satisfactorily in a forest with which one is thoroughly familiar. It is astonishing what tricks the wind will play in certain corries, and as a result what mistakes even a good stalker will make in a forest which is new to him. Moreover, any one stalking by himself, unless he has experience, may easily make another kind of mistake. He may think that he has missed a stag when he has in fact killed him. Any one who has had experience in shooting deer knows that a stag when shot through the heart will sometimes gallop for forty or fifty yards or even further and then fall down dead.
