FOR YOUNG SHOOTERS 23 



CHAPTEE V 



TYPICAL SHOOTERS 



PERHAPS the best piece of advice that I can give 

 you, my young friend, is that for conversational 

 purposes you should make a careful study of the 

 natures and temperaments of your companions. 

 Watch their little peculiarities, both of manner 

 and of shooting ; pick up what you can about their 

 careers in sport and in the general world, and use 

 the knowledge so acquired with tact and discretion 

 when you are talking to them. For instance, if 

 one of the party is a celebrated shot, who has done 

 some astonishing record at driven grouse, you may, 

 after the necessary preliminaries, ask him to be 

 good enough to tell you what was the precise 

 number of birds he shot on that occasion. Tell 

 him, if you like, that the question arose the other 

 day during a discussion on the three finest game- 

 shots of the world. If you happen to know that 



