242 THE SPORTSMAN IN FRANCE. 



tion the name of the ingenious inventor, 

 Mr. Lang, of the Haymarket, I need add 

 but Httle in the way of recommendation ; 

 I, however, earnestly advise all exciteable 

 people to use it. 



There is one other caution I would 

 give my readers, and that is, in driving 

 to, or from, the shooting ground in a 

 buggy, to take the caps off the nipple 

 before slinging the gun on the dash iron. 

 A gentleman with whom I have a slight 

 acquaintance met with an accident of 

 rather a serious nature, from having 

 placed his gun in the slings commonly 

 used for the reception of his umbrella, 

 inside the dash-board of his buggy. The 

 gun was not cocked, nor even half- 

 cocked, but the hammer was down on 

 the cap. 



It is well known that good caps are so 

 easily exploded, that the slightest pressure 

 will fire them. It was so in this instance ; 



