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long as the highly-finished arms that command a 

 high price." It is an egregious mistake. Cheaply 

 got-up and roughly finished guns will invariably 

 disappoint the purchaser, even if no worse result 

 arises; and well-made, highly -finished guns always 

 prove the cheapest in the end. 



If money is an object, and the purchaser does 

 not care to go to a long price, rather than allow 

 himself to be deluded into buying an inferior 

 article, let him go to one of the large London 

 gun repositories such as Whistler's, in the Strand, 

 where he can have the choice of several hundred 

 second-hand guns and rifles by the best makers. 

 Here anyone who is a judge of fire-arms can 

 pick out as good and serviceable a gun as can 

 be turned out, at about one-half its original cost. 



Although sportsmen rarely care to part with 

 really good arms, some people are whimsical, and 

 like to change their guns as they do their coats ; 

 the consequence of which fancy is, that highly- 

 finished guns that have hardly seen service are 

 often in the market. 



K 



