8 CONVERSATIONAL HINTS 



' Deadly absolutely deadly : best lot I've <ever 

 had/ 



You need not say anything more now. The 

 discussion will get along beautifully without you, 

 for you will have drawn (1), the man who very 

 much prefers E.G., which he warrants to kill at a 

 distance no other powder can attain to; (2), the 

 man who uses E.G. or Schultze for his right barrel, 

 and always puts a black-powder cartridge into his 

 left ; (3), the detester of innovations, who means to 

 go on using the good old black-powder for both 

 barrels as long as he lives ; and (4), the man who 

 is trying an entirely new patent powder, infinitely 

 superior to anything else ever invented, and is 

 willing to give everybody not only the address of 

 the maker, but half a dozen cartridges to try. 



You cannot make much of ' charges ' of powder. 

 Good shots are dogmatic on the point, and ordinary 

 shots don't bother their heads about it, trusting 

 entirely to the man who sells them their cartridges. 

 Still you might throw out, here and there, a few 

 words about ' drams ' and ' grains.' Only, above 

 all things, be careful not to mention drams in con- 

 nection with anything but black-powder, nor grains, 

 except with reference to Schultze or E.G. A 



