VII 



WHICH THE YOUNG SPORTSMAN 

 MAY READ WITH ADVANTAGE 



"\^ THEN I was a bit of a boy I read 

 somewhere that " to get the best 

 results with a cartridoe the shot should be 

 tightly packed with sand." I took the hint. 

 " Shutln's a quare thing nowadays," said an 

 old labourer of ours at the harvest -home 

 supper not long afterwards; ''t'other day I 

 picked up one o' these yere cartridges some 

 genelman had dropped, and, thinks I, I'll just 

 see what's In this chap ; so I cut 'un open with 



