FOR YOUNG SHOOTERS n 



had brought out by mistake. You may object that 

 you never, as a matter of fact, did this execution, 

 never having even shot at all with No. 8. Tush ! 

 you are puling. If you are going to let a con- 

 scientious accuracy stand in your way like this, you 

 had better become dumb when sporting talk is 

 flying about. Of course you must not exaggerate 

 too much. Only bumptious fools do that, and they 

 are called liars for their pains. But a little exag- 

 geration, just a soupgon of romance, does no one 

 any harm, while it relieves the prosaic dulness of 

 the ordinary anecdote. So, swallow your scruples, 

 and 



Join the gay throng 



That goes talking along, 



For we'll all go romancing to-day. 



