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not meet the resistance presented by the smaller and 

 more compact fitting grains. An American gentleman 

 who for some months frequently shot with me, had a 

 ten-bore gun thirty-six inches in the barrels, made, I 

 think, by a gunmaker named Abbey, of Chicago, 

 and weighing very nearly nine pounds. Such a 

 cannon would soon have worn me out, but my friend 

 was big all over and strong as an ox, and on the lon- 

 gest and hardest days, whether shooting snipe, duck, 

 pinnated grouse, or deer, never appeared to suffer 

 from its weight. Well this gun was an extraordinary 

 performer with buck-shot ; on one occasion I saw him 

 kill a brace of deer right and left so far off that I 

 hesitate to say the distance, knowing how skeptical 

 many are on the subject of long shots. 



