CONTENTS. XI 



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 Cocking the gun... Not allowable until the game is 



actually on wing . . . Reasons . 200 



Snap-shot, as required for shooting in cover . . 202 

 Variation, in " taking form," necessary . . . 203 

 Variation of the manual motions, with a different mode 



of coming to " present," specified . . . 204 

 Secure carriage of arms, for march through cover . 



Compared with an opposite .... 205 

 Example of untutored bearing . . . . . 



Security finally enforced 207 



Recurrence to the drill; with an immediate view to 



the progressive instruction of the junior pupil 209 



Swallow-practice 211 



Measure of level for a cross-shot ... Respect had to 



the state of the weather .... 212 



The pupil hardened to stand fire . . . .214 



Discipline of the eye , 215 



A continued or prolonged hold of the flight, of the 



last importance to certainty of shot ; and highly 



expedient as a matter of security . . .217 

 A test proposed, as the experimentum cruets on this 



head, and as the means of cultivating level to 



the extreme of perfection .... 219 

 Pupil admitted of the order . . . Terms . . . 



Motto 220 



Equipment for the field . * . . 

 Introduction to game ...... 221 



The final conquest over himself indispensable . . 223 

 High authority for the means of obtaining it . . 224 

 The author's defence of his system against the attacks 



of irregular practitioners .... 230 



