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shooting ; and it is said that even the best of upland 

 shots, or fowl shots, accustomed only to stooling, fail of 

 success at first in this flight-shooting, from the difficulty 

 of calculating the distance of the teams, and the rapidity 

 of their motion. 



And now, gentle readers, for our time, our topic, and 

 our space, are all three exhausted, if you he bound in 

 this, the best month, for the fair Chesapeake, steady be 

 your hands, and sure your eyes ; use Brough's Hawkers' 

 ducking powder, and Starkey's central fire caps, so shall 

 your guns not fail you. May the winds blow, the tides 

 flow, and the flights fly as you would have them. And 

 so farewell to ye ; and oh ! that we were bound thither 

 likewise, to beat you or be beaten, as it might be. 



