<iun Cases 



OFTEN prove very inconvenient to a person, who 

 travels by a mail coach, in the boot of which they 

 cannot be made to go without the risk of being 

 damaged, and having the gun itself endangered, by 

 the heavier luggage. From the prohibition of put- 

 ting any thing on the roof, there requires some in- 

 terest with the guard to allow even a small gun case 

 to go between that and the box, although the place 

 may be occupied by the passenger's own servant. It 

 has, therefore, often occurred, that sportsmen, who, 

 months before the grouse season, had eagerly secured 

 places in the north mails for the sake of one week's 

 shooting, were, after all, thrown out of the first three 

 or four days, by having to depend on their gun cases 

 being forwarded by another conveyance ; and other 

 persons, through fear of this, have submitted to the 

 shameful extortion of an imposing guard. (Of late 

 years, however, the wonderful improvements and 

 increase of light coaches have rendered travelling 

 sportsmen more independent of the mails ; or, to use 

 the modern term, " paper -carts?} 



For the young sportsman, or young traveller, to 

 be prepared against such annoyance, should he find 



