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elephants and bison, for example. Now, in 

 the first place, these come in few people's 

 way. In the second, when they do, I 

 greatly doubt if these weapons, burning as 

 they do a very moderate powder charge 

 (some 3i drachms), can possibly give the 

 necessary penetration for such game. At 

 least, I always used 6 to 8 drachms in my 

 1 2 -bore rifles. Shot-and-ball ouns are most 

 useful in countries where there is a little 

 game larger than what we have in England, 

 and this game, as a rule all over the Old 

 World, will be pig and small deer or ante- 

 lopes, none of which require so big a bullet. 

 I was showing that of my 20-bore " Uni- 

 versal " to a friend the other day. 



''Would it stop a boar?" he asked; to 

 which I replied, '' I never tried ; but it stops 

 a bear, horrid." And so it does. 



