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a wounded deer in a woodland, would hardly 

 get up to him on the " forest " before he was 

 " over the march." 



When we get to guns and rifles, dogmatism 

 is rampant indeed. ''English cannons" my 

 Austrian friends call the 12-bores favoured 

 by most British sportsmen, whilst, till re- 

 cently, we pooh-poohed their i6's. " A man 

 must be a Johnny to shoot with anything 

 larger than a 28-bore," wrote a noble lord in 

 the Field not very long ago. Now I must 

 admit that although a small-bore man myself, 

 a 28 seems rather small even to me. But as 

 I never tried one, this again may be my dog- 

 matism, and I certainly got some wonderful 

 results out of a short-barrelled 24 not long 

 ago. But for the 16 I have nothing to say. 

 It is neither fish nor flesh, neither a small- 

 bore nor a big-bore ; and it seems to me to 



