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of the guns—the practice of allowing spectators or 
keepers to squat under the fence in front is very 
unsafe and much against the in- 
terests of the bag. 
If there are persons under the 
fence in front of you, it is not so 
much against your interests as 
against those of your neighbours. 
The line from where your neigh- 
bour stands to where these people B 
sit, when the guns are placed a 
long way back from the fence, 
falls just at a very killing angle 
for him. In the diagram here 
shown there are two people under 
the fence at the point m, opposite C J 
the gun A. Now, A. need not 
shoot them, though they are prob- 
ably not safe even from him, as I 
will presently show ; but B., C. and 
D., especially B., could all kill 
birds at the points denoted by x, 
which ought to be perfectly safe p 
for those shooters ; but, as the lines 
Ae 
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show, would not be if there are people at m As 
far as B. and C. are concerned, the point x is 
