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You will laugh , and I give you leave to . You know what sort of sportsman I am , but I , even I , have bagged three boars , each one of them a perfect beauty . " What ! " you will say , " YOU ! " Yes , I , and that too without any violent departure from my usual lazy ways . I was sitting by the nets ; I had by my side not a hunting spear and a dart , but my pen and writing tablets . I was engaged in some composition and jotting down notes , so that I might have full tablets to take home with me , even though my hands were empty . You need not shrug your shoulders at study under such conditions . It is really surprising how the mind is stimulated by bodily movement and exercise . I find the most powerful incentive to thought in having the woods all about me , in the solitude and the silence which is observed in hunting . So when next you go hunting , take my advice and carry your writing tablets with you as well as your luncheon basket and your flask . You will find that Minerva loves to wander on the mountains quite as much as Diana . Farewell .