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CHAPTER VII. 



THE SHOT. 



There are a far greater variety of patrons of 

 the gun than are to be found among any class 

 of men pursumg any sport, (if we except 

 racing). This arises from several perfectly 

 natural causes. On the broad scale it may be 

 done any how. Foxhunting, with the exception 

 of the establishment being carried on a little 

 better or worse, must be done the same way. 

 Of harriers, on a minor scale, we may say 

 the same thing. The courser must (or at least 

 in nineteen cases in twenty does) live in the 

 country. But the shot ranges from the noble 

 with his grouse shootings, his estate preserves, 



