CHAPTER I 



BEGINNING TO SHOOT : AND THE MANAGEMENT 



OF THE GUN 



What has become of the gun the gardener's boy 

 used to shoot the poll-jays with when they came 

 after the peas ? It was the first gun I fired off. 

 It seems a long time since the days of that gun. 

 When you think of such days and try to tell of 

 them, it is hard to help writing in such a way that 

 people may be led to suppose you are quite old. It 



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