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of the guns the practice of allowing spectators or 

 keepers to squat under the fence in front is very 

 unsafe and much against the in- 

 terests of the bag. 



If there are persons under the 

 fence in front of you, it is not so 

 much against your interests as 

 against those of your neighbours. 

 The line from where your neigh- 

 bour stands to where these people B 

 sit, when the guns are placed a 

 long way back from the fence, 

 falls just at a very killing angle 

 for him. In the diagram here 

 shown there are two people under 

 the fence at the point m, opposite 

 the gun A. Now, A. need not 

 shoot them, though they are prob- 

 ably not safe even from him, as I 

 will presently show ; but B., C. and 

 D., especially B., could all kill 

 birds at the points denoted by x, 

 which ought to be perfectly safe 

 for those shooters ; but, as the lines * IG - I0 



show, would not be if there are people at ;;/. As 

 far as B. and C. are concerned, the point x is 



