The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-07-11
IN ENGLIsHWoMAN VINO HUNTS
Mig Game Has Fallen Bcforc Mrs. Gardner's
RIne in Many Parts Of tho world.

Mig Game Has Fallen before Mrs. Gardner's
Rino in Many Parts or tho World.
Perhaps the most enthusiastic s"portswoman
In England is Mrs. Gardner, wife of Col. Alan
Gardner. She took to wild shooting
shortly after her marriage. nearly ten years ago,
because she wanted to throw herself into the
most absorbing interest OF her husbands life.
Her success has been unusual, and the tales thut
she tells Of panthcrs, tigers. bears, lions. stays,
wild goats, and elk that have fallen by her gun
are thrilling enough TO make the average
sportsman ashamed Of his hunting list. In
1889, according to the Ludv's Pictorial.
Colonel and Mrs. Gardner went to New Zca-
land to visit the formers sister, who is tho vito
of the Earl Of Onslow. the Governor Of the island.
There Mrs. Gardner made her first venture in
mountain tops, for She said She intended to
almost inaccessible cliffs Of the Great Barrier
l 1Es,snd' s and she are was sxG as aT g0Siv as s,a nSr word and
s nasS0 g Ho"i smell Ire su SgSSSpIns'y a ! mile away aSa
To stalk one on the face of the cliffs
s9GSuair sisrm nSs Snly s spi9 ,se S Enalis hut Pntle Wss
cover the body Of one of these agile animals
for. nine times out Of ten. tho goat bounds from
the tiny shelf or sharp ~deciivity, where II poised
upon Iso tS being az, shot IStsr and !, fH 81 Gan5 doTn nm i; dbis x IbsrFs
way Mrs. Gardner lost all but two of the goats
AS the goat in its wild state is found in only
two places. Mrs. Gardner thought, it strange
that he very next summer she should happen to
visit Null, where she was able to follow the
goat in its native haunts, The coast there Is
rough as on the cliffs of South Island. She next
spent two winters In India; one up In kashmir
that she brought down there was the hungal, or
Kashmir stag, which Is the same as the Scotch
red deer, and il called the barasingh. or
points. She Crossed the mountains from tho
hill state Of ChaInba at u height of $4,000 feet
in the dead of winter, and was rewarded by get
ting her first shot at a leopard at Chamba. She
went out after a man-eating leopard and after
the Himalayan chamois, known as the gooral,
besides bagging several big bears.
When in the salt ranges on the Jhelum she
went on many expeditions after wild sheep, and
they put in their time pig sticking. panther
s~pearinR. and hunting the neilghai, while occa
hares. and sand grouse from the back of an Gle
plant. Sometimes when out for small game they
came upon a wild boar. and that was always The
winter in India this ardent sportswoman wen
IN for fishing, on the banks OF the Indus, Hel
husband succeeded in shooting huge crocodile
much TO the distress Of the natives. who de
Clared II bore a charmed life.
Besides the large game shooting in the Wild
OF Africa and the Junglcs of India, Mrs. Gardnei
has gone in for all KINDS OF sport in Europe. TIVE
years ago. while in Spain. she visited FL Cote
on the Guadalquivir where she shot the came
In its wild state. and also the wild boar and stag
From Here's she went out after the bigger bus
tard, and another year she and her husban,
were in Corsica, where they had some most eS
citing experiences pursuing the moutfton. Mex
elk. and she returned home very recently with
car load Of trophies. She always camps out o
her expeditions, and her husband say that sh
is n irst-class all-round sportswoman. When u
home she follows the hounds