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No Wapping butcher could do all these things as he 

 does." He felt sure that, from his dexterity in fishing, 

 from his prowess with his gun, and from his refined 

 manner in pulling off his hat, he must have been born 

 a gentleman, that he could not by any possibility 

 be a butcher ergo, he must be the right man, that 

 is, Sir Roger Tichborne. 



Powder need not necessarily be in a gun to cause 

 an accident. I remember when almost a boy, and 

 with my brothers out shooting, one of them thinking 

 he might run short of powder, after having shaken his 

 flask and not being quite satisfied as to its contents, 

 unscrewed the top, when a spark from a cigar he was 

 smoking fell into it, and there was, of course, a real 

 blow up. The flask was blown to pieces over the 

 hedge, his hair and face considerably singed and scari- 

 fied, but no one killed or seriously injured. This 

 was most providential, and the same good Providence 

 has watched over him since, for he was second in 

 command of the Grenadier Guards at the Alma, and 

 commanded them at Inkerman. 



That guns and powder and shooting are all dan- 

 gerous affairs, I think has been pretty clearly set forth. 

 Shooting is at times a sport which may produce 

 mischief and accidents, which do not depend upon the 



