THE LONG TRAIL 



shooting under disadvantageous circum- 

 stances — if he had been running and were 

 winded, if he were hungry or wet, or tired, 

 or feeling the sun, if he were uncertain of 

 the wind or the range. Sometimes, of 

 course, a crack shot possesses all the other 

 qualities; such is the case with Stewart 

 Edward White, whom Cuninghame clas- 

 sified as the best shot with whom he 

 hunted in all his twenty-five years in 

 the wilds. Father shot on a par with 

 Cuninghame, and a good deal better 

 than I, though not as well as Tarleton. 

 I have often heard father regret the 

 fact that he did not care for shooting with 

 the shotgun. He pointed out that it was 

 naturally the most accessible and least ex- 

 pensive form of hunting. His eyesight 

 made it almost impossible for him to 

 attain much skill with a shotgun, and al- 

 though as a boy and young man he went 

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