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rate means may pick up an excellent gun, 

 by a first-rate maker, at one or two re- 

 spectable repositories in this metropolis. 



Gentlemen's sons of the present day 

 begin to know the value of pounds, shil- 

 lings, and pence ; and many a scion of a 

 noble house is not above purchasing a 

 second-hand gun, when, some fifteen or 

 twenty years ago, he would have cut his 

 dearest friend for entertaining such a 

 plebeian idea. 



Mr. Vaughan, the silversmith in the 

 Strand, has an exceedingly good selec- 

 tion of guns. I accompanied a friend of 

 mine to this establishment not long ago, 

 he being about to make a second-hand 

 purchase for an acquaintance in the 

 country. I was really surprised at the 

 extensive and judicious assortment ; I saw 

 some new, and a few second-hand guns, 

 by the two Mantons, Purdey, Lancaster, 

 Westley Richards, Forsyth, and one by 



