Parker Gillmore

Gun, Rod, and Saddle: Personal Experiences Parker Gillmore

The fondness theE nglish gentry have for manly sports is proverbial, and this national taste has the I jest possible means of encouragement, in the adventurous life necessarily pursued by officers of an army which has its outposts in every part of the globe. The author of this little volume in the course of his military service had, consequently, the opportunity and exceeding pleasure of indulging in almost every variety of manly sport, the pursuit of which characterizes the accomplished gentleman. His intellectual tastes led him in early life to the studies of natural history, and his field enjoyments opened wide the arcana of nature so that he combined within himself the double satisfaction of the true sportsman and the intelligent disciple of nature.
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