186 THE SPORTSMAN IN FRANCE. 



this was no impediment in the way of my 

 sport, for I was provided with one of Mr. 

 Wood's private particulars, and a splendid 

 little gun it was — I made some surprising 

 shots at rabbits with it, perfectly incredible 

 to distance ; and the shot were thrown 

 with a strength and concentration I never 

 yet saw surpassed ; this in rabbit shoot- 

 ing is especially desirable ; for with a 

 scattering, weak-^shooting gun, you have 

 the painful reflection of dooming the ani- 

 mal to a lingering, torturing death. 



I am perfectly disinterested in making 

 these observations, and I can therefore 

 honestly and conscientiously say to him 

 who wants a good double, go to the 

 Bishop of Bond-street, and if he do not 

 sell you a first-rate one, I know nothing 

 of guns. 



As economy is the order of the day, it 

 may not be irrelevant to state, that where 

 price is an object, the sportsman of mode- 



