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change of bird in another direction*, it is ten 

 to one that you never get it, to any good purpose 

 at least ; and not much less than an even wager, 

 if your station be on rough ground, that you 

 make a tumble. 



Let me here be permitted to revert, with a 

 moment's application to yourself. You will by 

 this time have perceived, that by the extended 

 position of your lower limbs in " taking form," 

 and the further advancing of the left side of 

 the body, as you throw the but from you at the 

 word "Mark!" the right shoulder is kept so 

 relatively back, that although your but be some- 

 what of the longest, it must of necessity come 

 to sight, without the possibility of a touch ijpon 

 the shoulder. In fact, it comes up to level, by 

 the turn of the but upon the fore-finger of the 

 right hand as the centre of motion f, some inches 

 ahead ; and is to be brought home with a smart 

 action backwards, and imbedded in its place. 

 I leave you now to compare with this the effects 

 of the hen-roost-robbing attitude, which I have 



* It is this stumbling shift of the foot, with the eye already 

 fixed upon the mark, which contributes more than the increase 

 of distance, to make the second shot from a double-gun sa 

 ineffective. 



t I refer to this action as particularly shown under the 

 head of PRESENT ! Drill Exercise, p. 185. 



