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those who would seek counsel and advice 

 before entering on a sport of which 

 they have little previous knowledge or 

 experience. 



In the whirl of our modern civilisation 

 everything must be done in a hurry ; the 

 more leisurely methods of other days 

 yield to the influence of the times in 

 which we live. In shooting, as in other 

 matters, and you, to whom the oppor- 

 tunities of serving your apprenticeship to 

 the gun in your schoolboy days were 

 denied, may now learn how to handle 

 the gun in proper style without ever 

 setting your foot outside the area of 

 the wood pavement and the taxi-cab. 

 And very well taught you will be in 

 one of many shooting schools which 

 flourish round London, where every 

 device is used to make the clay pigeon 

 simulate the flight of the real bird, where 

 you may shoot very tolerable imitation 

 grouse out of a real heather butt, or 

 walk up clay partridges in a real turnip 

 field, with a skilled attendant always at 



