[Illustration: AN EFFECTIVE MILITARY MANOEUVRE.

"The day of cocked hats and plumes is past and gone. This head-dress
is utterly unsuited for active service."--_Military Correspondent's
Letter to Times_.

SUGGESTION, IN CONSEQUENCE, FOR NEW COSTUME FOR GENERAL
OFFICERS--SO THAT THEY MIGHT BE MISTAKEN BY THE ENEMY FOR HARMLESS
GENTLEMEN-FARMERS ENGAGED IN AGRICULTURAL PURSUITS.]

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STALKING THE SAGACIOUS STAG.

_SPORTING NOTES FROM OUR SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE_.

I had an invite from JEPSON, a Stock Exchange acquaintance, who has
rented a Moor for the winter months, and who, happening to hear that
I and my two foreign friends were in the neighbourhood, most kindly
asked me to come and have a look at his box, and bring them with me.

"I hear," he writes, "that the deer are very lively, and if you want
to show your foreign friends some first-rate British Sport, you can't
do better than bring them."

Need I say that I jumped at this. Coming along on the top of the
coach, that takes us to Spital-hoo, the place my friend has rented, I
have been endeavouring to describe what I _imagine_ to be the nature
of the sport of Deer-stalking to the Chief and the Bulgarian Count.