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perfection — lightness, handiness, workmanship, and 

 performance of the very best. It is said that you can 

 change from a single-barrel shot-gun to a sporting 

 rifle and shoot with the rifle almost at once; while 

 many who have been used to the slap-dash double 

 cannot do anything for some time with a rifle. More 

 than one African explorer has found his single-barrel 

 smooth-bore the most useful of all the pieces in his 

 battery; though, of course, of much larger calibre 

 than required in our fields. 



