CHRISTOPHER 

 IN HIS SPORTING JACKET 



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WE are always unwilling to speak of ourselves, lest 

 we should appear egotistical for egotism we detest. 

 Yet the sporting world must naturally be anxious to 

 know something of our early history and their anx- 

 iety shall therefore be now assuaged. The truth is, 

 that we enjoyed some rare advantages and opportu- 

 nities in our boyhood regarding field sports, and grew 

 up, even from that first great era in every Lowlanders 

 life, Breeching-day, not only a fisher but a fowler; and 

 it is necessary that we enter into some interesting de- 

 tails. 



There had been from time immemorial, it was un- 

 derstood, in the Manse, a duck-gun of very great 

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