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has a modified choke, the subject is pretty well 

 exhausted. 



' Cast-off.' Not to be recommended. There is 

 very little to be made of it. 



Something may be done with the price of guns. 

 There's sure to be someone who has done all his 

 best and straightest shooting with a gun that cost 

 him only 151. Everybody else will say, ' It's perfect 

 rot giving such high prices for guns. You only pay 

 for the name. Mere robbery.' But there is hardly 

 one of them who would consent not to be robbed. 



It sometimes creates a pretty effect to call your 

 gun ' My old fire-iron,' or * my bundook,' or ' this 

 old gas-pipe of mine.' 



' Bore.' Never pun on this word. It is never 

 done in really good sporting society. But you can 

 make a few remarks, here and there, about the 

 comparative merits of twelve-bore and sixteen-bore. 

 Choose a good opening for telling your story of the 

 man who shot with a fourteen-bore gun, ran short 

 of cartridges on a big day, and was, of course, un- 

 able to borrow from anyone else. Hence you can 

 deduce the superiority of twelve-bores, as being the 

 more common size. 



All these subjects, like all others connected with 



