184 THE SPORTSMAN IN FRANCE. 



Mr. Bishop, of Bond-street, who is West- 

 ley Richards's agent, asks from eight- 

 and-thirty to forty pounds, ready money. 

 Here is a great difference in the price, but 

 I can assure my readers none will be found 

 in the guns or the workmanship, for both 

 are perfect. I have shot with first-rate 

 guns made by all the first-rate makers, 

 but I never met with any superior to 

 Westley Richards's, but a vast number 

 very inferior to them. 



The " Bishop of Bond-street," as this 

 facetious agent terms himself, is unre- 

 mitting in the discharge of his duty to 

 his employer, and personally superintends 

 and inspects the finishing of the guns. 

 It must in justice be admitted that they 

 are got up in a very superior manner, 

 and I will add, that they shoot stronger 

 and quicker than many others whose 

 makers shall be nameless. 



In short, they are turned out in the 



