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place on the list of the Lord High Executioner. 

 Surely if there is a time when he must be aware 

 that he wants more cartridges, that time is at the 

 finish of a beat, when the beaters are close at hand. 

 Men who shoot with guns of any but the con- 

 ventional twelve-bore seldom run out of cartridges. 

 Possibly the fact that they are not likely to be able 

 to borrow has as much as anything to do with their 

 ample provision. Be that as it may, I knew a gun 

 who gave it out as part of his ethics that he did not 

 believe in taking more than forty cartridges to any 

 shoot. Though he never tried to thrust his rule 

 down the throats of other people, he had no objection 

 to taking a dip from another man's bag when his 

 forty rounds had been consumed. The majority of 

 people who borrow cartridges find it easier to 

 borrow than to repay. 



It is not given to every man to be able to pay the 

 greedy gun in his own coin. I do not say that good 

 shots are more likely to be greedy than bad ones, 

 but when a good shot is greedy, his greediness is 

 specially annoying. The good shot has a very 

 practical cure for greediness on the part of an 

 inferior shooter, which very soon cures him. I 

 remember a little incident connected with a greedy 

 and bad shot that occurred before I was out of my 

 teens. It was a matter of a cock pheasant and we 

 thought something of a cock pheasant in those days. 

 The bird was coming nicely for me, toward my left 



