166 GUN, ROD, AND SADDLE. 



not meet the resistance presented by tlie smaller and 

 more compact fitting grains. An American gentleman 

 who for some months frequently sliot witli me, had a 

 ten-bore gun thiity-six inclies in tlie barrels, made, I 

 tliink, by a gunmaker named Abbey, of Cliicago, 

 and weigliing very nearly nine pounds. Such a 

 cannon would soon have worn me out, but my friend 

 was big all over and strong as an ox, and on the lon- 

 gest and hardest days, whether shooting snipe, duck, 

 pinnated grouse, or deer, never ap})eared to suffer 

 from its weight. Well this gun was an extraordinary 

 performer with Inick-shot ; on one occasion I saw him 

 kill a brace of deer right and left so far off tliat I 

 hesitate to sa}^ the distance, knowing liow skeptical 

 many are on the subject of long shots. 



