40 SHOOTING: 



Always believe their words of honour lies, 

 Without the " true avouch of your own eyes;" 

 The Tyro oft has wish'd his bargain dead, 

 For which two months before he freely bled. 

 There's scarce a friend I know but will attest, 

 With phiz complacent, his will prove the best : 

 I've seen those prais'd, than which none could act 



worse, 



For which, if ofFer'd, I'd not give a curse. 

 'Tis folly therefore, Sportsmen, to expect 

 A Breaker should be free from this defect. 

 Pointers and Setters, as I'll shortly show, 

 May be bought tried within two miles or so 

 Of Hyde Park corner Battersea, I mean, 

 Where of each kind varieties are seen ; 

 To London shoals of them from northward come, 

 Most, ready broken for the Sportsman's gun. 

 If you can manage, at the season's end 

 Buy in your dogs, I'd always recommend ; 



