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instructive information to the sportsman, 

 it is by no means the intention of the 

 editor that they should be suffered to 

 perish. In the little that remains to be 

 done to prepare them for the press, he has 

 not, as in the unfinished materials for the 

 tuition of the dog, to encounter profes- 

 sional idiom, or the technicalities of lan- 

 guage belonging to the business of the 

 field. He finds nothing in them much out 

 of the way of ordinary composition ; and 

 if the present publication should meet that 

 favourable reception, of which he is led 

 to entertain an earnest hope, it is his pur- 

 pose, at an early period, to offer them to 

 the further approbation of all those on 

 whom it has pleased our author, with 

 allowable whim, to confer the honourable 

 distinctions of his new-created ORDER OF 



THE TRIGGER. 



In the mean time, the editor has the 

 satisfaction to believe, that in their present 

 form, these Instructions will be read with 

 no inconsiderable interest, not only by the 



