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I must yet observe is not quite in unison with the 

 general appearance of a perfect gentleman. I shall, 

 therefore, recommend to them dark kid gloves, which 

 will stand a month's shooting much better than 

 might be supposed ; and if they fit nicely to the 

 fingers, are so thin as not to be the least incumbrance 

 between the triggers. Of these and other gloves, 

 the best and strongest that I can anywhere procure 

 are sold by Mr. Painter, No. 27, Fleet-street. 



If a person is extremely nervous from hearing the 

 report of his gun, or from the noise of the rising 

 game, let him prime his ears with cotton, and his 

 inside with tincture of bark and sal volatile. 



It sometimes happens that a covey of birds is 

 always to be found, but never to be got at ; and are 

 always seen going over one hedge, as soon as you 

 arrive at the other. In this case let the shooter, if 

 distressed for a brace of birds, place himself behind 

 the hedge they fly over, and send a person round to 

 drive the birds to him. He will then probably get a 

 double shot, and very likely disperse the covey. 



When birds are so wild that they will not lie, you 

 often see them running across a barren field ; in 

 which case keep out of sight, if you can, and make a 

 little noise, in order to drive them to the opposite 

 hedge, but do not show yourself, or they will, perhaps, 

 fly up, and be afterwards so much on the alert as not 

 to be got at without great manoeuvring. 



When birds run (but are not visible on the 



