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certainly, seeing that there is no time to correct aim. But 

 alignment does not mean looking down the rib and seeing the 

 bird at the end of it ; it means looking down the rib at some 

 point in space which moves as the bird moves, and its principal 

 value is not that it is good to correct aim, but that it guides 

 the first swing to the spot. For instance, in the second shot 

 the gun is at the shoulder always, and swings in to the correct 

 place while always in alignment with the eye. 



Ten years ago, Sir Ralph P. Gallwey picked out the 

 following as the best shots in England : Lords de Grey, 

 Walsingham, Huntingfield, Ashburton, Carnegie, Wemyss, and 

 Bradford, the Maharajah Duleep Singh, Messrs. F. E. R. 

 Fryer, A. Stuart Wortley, R. Rimington Wilson, and F. S. 

 Corrance. 



Bailey's list of voted-for good shots was 



i. Earl de Grey. JE. de C. Oakley. 



o JMr. Rimington Wilson. *' \Lord Ashburton. 



"' I Lord Walsingham. A. W. Blyth. 



3. Mr. H. Noble. 6 C. P. Wykeham Martin. 

 Hon. H. Stoner. Prince F. Duleep Singh. 

 Lord Falconer. Lord Carnarvon. 



4. ^Prince Victor Duleep Singh. rLord Warwick. 



H.R.H. the Prince of Wales. 7.] Lord Westbury. 

 F. E. R. Fryer. I Sir Robert Gresley. 



Prince Victor Duleep Singh is no doubt about as quick a 

 game shot as his father before him ; the latter as a shot com- 

 pared in the same way with Englishmen as his countryman 

 " Ranji " compares with our slower cricketers. 



The Prince of W T ales is very quick and very keen ; not at 

 all a feather-bed sportsman, he is ready at all times to face the 

 weather for a very little sport. His duck shooting in Canada 

 and his jungle sport in India are within the recollection of 

 everybody. That he does not draw for places is because a 

 host's will is law even to the heir to England's crown. 



The Hon. H. Stonor, who is not easily beaten for style and 



