SPOKTSMEN, FARMERS, &C. I69 



Manv years ao'o, I used to be satisfied 

 provided my gun, at forty measured yards, 

 with equal measure of powder and shot, 

 would shoot through a quire of foolscap 

 writing-paper. Recollect that there are 

 four-and-twenty sheets in the quire; but, 

 as it is always sold doubled, so it must be 

 fired at, and will present to you forty- 

 «ight half-sheets : and, in these days, even 

 though I have guns, which will shoot 

 stronger, yet a man may be satisfied with 

 one which will perform as I have stated, 

 for it must be deemed a good gun. Re- 

 member the shot must be No, 3, patent, — 

 neither larger nor smaller. 



Provided any gentleman, whom I am 

 acquainted with, when he meets me, will 

 ask me, I will instruct him how he can 

 entice hares, which pass over his grounds, 

 to stop aiid remain on them ; and how to 

 entice them, by food in winter, and espe- 

 cially how to make them frequent any 

 one pailicular wood or plantation on his 

 grounds. But any gentleman who may 



