76 GUN-SHY DOGS. 



of this abominable fault, but never with success. 

 When rifle practice was going on at St. George's 

 Bay, Malta, or at the Neutral Ground, Gibraltar, he 

 would trot out his pupils, and there make them fast 

 during the hours of firing, but ultimately he gave his 

 labour up, and pronounced the fault incorrigible. 



