INIRODUCTORY CHAPTER. 



and his gun. Elsewhere he will find hints how 

 best to supply himself with the former : we will 

 here address ourself to counsel him touching the 

 latter, and its necessaiy appurtenances. For your 

 gun — of course a double-barrel percussion — go to 

 the best artist in such articles within compass of 

 your pocket. Leave to him all matters of finish 

 — all quality of the instrument — and, as regards 

 choice, adopt to the letter the advice of Horace 

 to the youth about to rush into verse : — 



"Sumite materiam vestris, qui scribitis, equam 

 Viribus : et versate din, quid ferre recusent, 

 Quid valeant humeri.'' 



The great names in the Metropolitan gun trade 

 are those of Manton, Egg, Moore, Nock, Smith, 

 Purdey, Westley Eichards — represented by his 

 agent. Bishop, of Bond Street, — and last, but 

 certainly not least, in our good opinion, Joseph 

 Lang, of the Haymarket : 



" Cum multis aliis quos nunc," &c. 



Comparisons are proverbially odious, and we 

 therefore eschew them, merely remarking, that 

 not being hard to jolease, we should be content 

 to have our ^\ickecl will in the preserves of 

 Holkham or Henham, with the best double de- 

 tonator any one of these might turn out. 



