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been the result of still further experience ; and, 

 therefore, may be considered, in some degree, 

 as finishing lessons to those young sportsmen, 

 who have before done him the honour to 

 attend to his earlier instructions. 



The original matter, however, on which no 

 improvement happened to present itself, will, 

 of course, remain as before, for the benefit of 

 younger pupils in shooting. But every thing, 

 which was written previously to the year 1816 

 that could be improved, up to the present 

 year, has been introduced on a different, and, 

 he trusts, a more perfect system. 



All the new directions, which this work 

 contains, have been first experimentally tried, 

 and taken down, from time to time, in a 

 pocket book ; then detailed, as soon after as 

 possible, in the most specific manner; and, 

 before they were entered among these pages, 

 abridged to about a tenth part of their original 

 bulk, through consideration for the patience 

 of the reader. 



Some apology may, perhaps, be requisite for 



