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with 1^ oz. of No. 5, will stop any thing short of a tearing 

 old cock bird at any distance short of fifty yards, or at 

 that, if it be an out-and-out good London gun, and beyond 

 that there is no certainty with any gun. 



Such a gun, I can safely assure any one, even if he be 

 a strong man, and a stout, enduring walker, in addition to 

 the other traps, ammunition, and the like, which he will 

 have to carry, even if he be provided with an attendant to 

 take charge of the game which, by the way, is indispen- 

 sable, since it would be something of a puzzler for one to 

 find himself weighed down with a back load of thirty or 

 forty brace of two Ib. prairie-fowl will be found quite as 

 much weight as it will be either profitable or pleasant to 

 carry during an all- day tramp over a rolling prairie in the 

 month of August, or even on a warm Indian Summer day 

 of brown September. 



The instructions for hunting pointers in the open, as 

 given before, are all especially applicable here. You can 

 hardly get them to range too high or wide, as they are 

 constantly in full sight, provided they will stand stiff and 

 firm, until you can get up to them, and that they back in 

 first-rate style, without the necessity of shouting, rating, or 

 whistling to them. 



Grouse are a shy, wild bird, at best ; and in no bird of 

 sport do finely broken dogs, that will beat their ground 

 silently and steadily as you wish them, at a wave of the 

 hand, drop, stop, or come to heel, at a motion without a 

 word or whistle, tell more effectual a tale than on the 

 prairie. 



If your dogs be perfect and thoroughly trained, there 



