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gamekeepers, and watchers, down to the tailor 

 of Regent Street, who perhaps has money, and 

 the little farmer who has not, may all shoot. 

 You cannot point out any class or description 

 of men (ahove pauperism) of which I will not 

 name several who shoot; even pauperism that 

 I have made an exception is in fact no ex- 

 ception at all, for many in such state do watch 

 for opportunity and shoot, verily, in many cases 

 to considerable extent, an old musket bought 

 for perhaps thirty shillings, and a cunning cur 

 dog, sadly disturbing the peace of my lord's 

 pheasants. 



Thus there is no characteristic of the shot 

 by which to describe or judge him. He is a 

 nondescript, that is by describing one man we 

 could no more convey an idea of what or who 

 the next might be, than we could by describing 

 one passing vehicle in the strand enable anyone 

 to form a guess at what the next might be. 

 The master of hounds contributes largely to the 



