ADVEETISEMENT. 



THE following pages are meant literally "to teach the young 

 idea how to shoot," and to set forth a popular sport in the 

 character of a rational rural recreation. No such work had yet 

 been written. Colonel Hawker, indeed, calls his amusing and 

 thoroughly practical volume, " Instructions to Young Sports- 

 men;" hut as a class book, it is only suited to a school for 

 grown children. A youth ambitious of the Scottish moors, or 

 to essay his devoir among the pheasants and partridges, cares 

 as little about "a self-acting machine for turning the insides 

 of gun-barrels," as for the internal economy of a self-acting 

 piano, or a barrel-organ. We have, therefore, in this our 

 Manual for the young shooter, eschewed all allusion to the 

 haberdashery of his pastime ; and, supposing him equipped as 

 befits his purpose, have taken him abroad to " flood and field," 

 introduced him to their boon populace, and bade him good 

 speed ! 



