SPOHTSMEN, FARMERS, &C. ISl 



which these most ingenious artists, with 

 their ivonder-worldng, two-hundred-guinea 

 rifle-bench, will charge you thirty guineas for, 

 I will also assure them, that, a few years 

 ago, I had a shot-gun, w^hich was made for 

 a German jager, v/ hich cost only three guineas ; 

 and I never, in my life, shot out of a better 

 gun. To be sure, I must allow that the 

 lock w^as very indifferent, and the stock not 

 elegantly finished; but the lock never, 

 missed fire, and the barrel shot very well 

 indeed ; and, what is more strange, the bar- 

 rel was what is vulgarly called strait 

 rifled, which requires additional labour and 

 workmanship. 



I have already observed, what folly it is Foiiy to g:ive 



^ ^ ^ suchhigh 



to give from fifty to sixty-five guineas for ^l^^l ^°^j^^^ 



a gun, when Baker of Whitechapel, and b^gtven'!"^'^ 



Fisher, of Greek Street, Soho, will make 



you as good a double gun as can be shot 



out of, for about thirty-six guineas. It is 



no more than due justice to relate a truth : 



Fisher, of Greek Street, a very few years 



ago, put a single barrel into an old German 



stock, with a German lock already to it. 



The barrel weighs three or four ounces 



