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in his " sporting tour/' and there certainly was a strong 

 likeness in more than one way. 



I will submit the description, and let my friends 

 see if I had not just grounds for coming to this con- 

 clusion. " Jog had had many a game at romps with 

 these birds, and knew their haunts and habits to a 

 nicety. The covey consisted of thirteen originally, 

 but by repeated blazings into the ' broun of 'em ' he 

 had succeeded in knocking down two. Jog was not 

 one of your conceited shots who never fired but when 

 he was sure of killing ; on the contrary, he always let 

 drive far or near, and even if he shot a hare, which he 

 sometimes did with the first barrel, he always popped 

 the second into her to make sure. Jog's shooting 

 afforded amusement to the neighbourhood. On one 

 occasion, a party of reapers having watched him miss 

 twelve shots in succession, gave him three cheers on 

 coming to the thirteenth/' 



Our worthy friend T. was the greatest theoretical 

 sportsman I ever met, and to hear him talk you would 

 imagine that he had reduced the whole performance 

 to such a certainty, that to let a bird get off " scot 

 free " was unknown to his double-barrel when he had 

 the pulling of the triggers. 



On one occasion, when on a shooting expedition, he 

 dropped into a tavern the evening before commencing 



