Excerpt from Short Stalks or Hunting Camps, North, South, East, and West
Most of the papers which I have collected in this volume have appeared before in various magazines and journals. My thanks are especially due to the Editors of The Nineteenth Century, The New Review, The Field newspaper, and The Alpine Journal, for their permission to reprint them.
All but one of them describe the chase and death of some wild animal. Perhaps the criticism will be made that it is sad that a man cannot enjoy himself in foreign countries without killing something. I freely admit that it is a pity, but I cannot deny that, to most of us, the pursuit of creatures which are hard to catch, whether butterflies or buffaloes, is very pleasant. If the predatory instincts which we have inherited - one of my ancestors was sarcastically described as "worshipping, leaning on his gun" - cannot be altogether eradicated, I may at least urge, in mitigation, that in all these journeys, spreading over more than a quarter of a century, I am personally responsible for the death of less than eighty four-footed animals.
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