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rule number one. Number two is, don't shoot anybody, not even 

 yourself. And that's all." 



"Of course, there are other rules, but they will have to be borne 

 in upon you by precept, example and practice. No one can tell 

 them to you. If you are a duffer you never can learn them in a 

 thousand years, but if you are born to be a deer stalker they will 

 seem part of your nature before you have seen the last of Benmore." 

 I had to be content with this, and with the thought that I had a 

 rather large and vague contract before me, I turned in with the 

 promise that I should be called when it was time for me to get up. 



