THE GUN, AND HOW TO CHOOSE IT. 



IN the United States and British Provinces of North 

 America, as a general rule, shooting with the shot gun or 

 the rifle, must be regarded as the head and front of Field 

 Sports ; and not, as is the case in Europe, second, as a 

 tamer and far less exciting pursuit, to the glorious excite- 

 ment of the chase. 



In the northern States of the Union and the British 

 Provinces, the extreme severity of the winters rendering 

 the country too hard to be run over by hounds or ridden 

 over on horses, except during a few weeks in the autumn, 

 and a few more in the first opening of the spring, as well 



