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being at a convenient distance from the city, and good pushers 

 and boats are to be had without much difficulty. 



EXPENSE ATTENDING RAIL-SHOOTING. 



This amusement is somewhat expensive to the sportsman, at all 

 events, much more so than partridge-shooting. Good pushers 

 command high prices for their arduous services, and few, if any of 

 them, are contented with less than $2 50 or $3 a tide; but if they 

 perform their duty well, we do not consider these amounts too much, 

 as their work is of the severest kind. If the generality of them, 

 however, drank less and pushed harder, it would be a salutary 

 change for the better among this class of men. 



Some of our friends who live upon the river in the vicinity of 

 the rail-ground take turns in pushing each other during the shoot- 

 ing season, and thus enjoy in a quiet way this sport, without the 

 expense of employing "regular pushers." 



