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your elbow to coach you into good 

 form. 



There are several first-class schools of 

 this kind — the London Sporting Park at 

 Hendon probably being as good as any, 

 and easily accessible. The manager at 

 this institution can boast of having seen 

 upwards of twelve million cartridges fired 

 from sporting guns on his ground during 

 the last few years. Lessons in the art of 

 shooting from a tutor of such experience 

 are undoubtedly of the greatest assistance 

 to the beginner ; the practised eye can 

 follow the flight of the shot through the 

 air, instantly detecting each error in aim, 

 and taking measures to correct it — till 

 eventually the tutor, having mastered all 

 the idiosyncrasies and peculiarities of the 

 individual he has to deal with, can fit 

 you with a gun as well and as cleverly 

 as a Bond street tailor will fit you with a 

 suit of clothes. 



This is certainly a very desirable state 

 of affairs so far as it goes, that a man 

 can now enter on the shoot in 2 field a 



