CONVERSATIONAL HINTS 



FOR 



YOUNG SHOOTERS 



CHAPTEE I 



OF GUNS, CHOKES, BORES, ETC. 



MANY manuals have been published for the edifica- 

 tion of beginners in the art of shooting. If that 

 art can indeed be acquired by reading, there is no 

 reason why any youth, whose education has been 

 properly attended to, should not be perfectly pro- 

 ficient in it without having fired a single shot. 

 But I have noticed in all these volumes a grave 

 defect. In none of them is any instruction given 

 which shall enable a man to obtain a conversational 

 as well as a merely shooting success. Every pursuit 

 has its proper conversational complement. The 

 farmer must know how to speak of crops and the 

 weather in picturesque and inflammatory language ; 



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