INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER. 



and his gun. Elsewhere he will find hints how 

 best to supply himself with the former : we will 

 here address ourself to counsel him touching the 

 latter, and its necessary appurtenances. For your 

 gun of course a double-barrel percussion go to 

 the best artist in such articles within compass of 

 your pocket. Leave to him all matters of finish 

 all quality of the instrument and, as regards 

 choice, adopt to the letter the advice of Horace 

 to the youth about to rush into verse : 



"Sumite materiam vestris, qui scribitis, equam 

 Viribus : et versate din, quid ferre recusent, 

 Quid valeant humeri." 



The great names in the Metropolitan gun trade 

 are those of Manton, Egg, Moore, Nock, Smith, 

 Purdey, Westley Richards represented by his 

 agent, Bishop, of Bond Street, and last, but 

 certainly not least, in our good opinion, Joseph 

 Lang, of the Haymarket : 



" Cum multis aliis quos nunc," &c. 



Comparisons are proverbially odious, and we 

 therefore eschew them, merely remarking, that 

 not being hard to please, we should be content 

 to have our wicked will in the preserves of 

 Holkham or Henham, with the best double de- 

 tonator any one of these might turn out. 



