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above four pounds. He only charged me 

 six guineas for the barrel. I lent it about 

 three seasons past to a man, who, I think, 

 was one of the best shots which ever took 

 a gun to his shoulder. I seldom have 

 shot with this gun myself, for I ever shoot 

 with a double gun. He killed several 

 gaiar Jong birds at wonderfully lona^ distances ; but he 



phot at a Hare. '^ ^ _ ^ 



made one of the most surprising long shots 

 at a hare that ever I saw, I am certain I 

 could not be mistaken in the distance, for 

 the hare was running along a foot-path 

 close to the hedge, in which path I was 

 walking at a distance behind ; and, less than 

 one yard after he shot at her, she turned 

 into a gap in the hedge : she did not run 

 much above a hundred yards before the 

 dogs caught her. I went up to the spot 

 where he shot at her, and measured it, to 

 the place where he stood, and he measured 

 it from the spot he had fired from, and we 

 made it about tivo yards above fourscore. 

 Now this hare was not strufck with one 

 chance shot in the brain or heart, but she 

 had three or four shot in the fore-part of 

 her body, just behind the fore-leg. It 



