THE GUN, AND TIOW TO CHOOSE IT. 
In the United States and British Provinces of North 
America, as a general rule, shooting with the shot gun or 
the rifle, must be regarded as the head and front of Field 
Sports; and not, as is the case in Hurope, second, as a 
tamer and far less exciting pursuit, to the glorious excite- 
ment of the chase. 
In the northern States of the Union and the British 
Provinces, the extreme severity of the winters rendering 
the country too hard to be run over by hounds or ridden 
over on horses, except during a few weeks in the autumn, 
and a few more in the first opening of the spring, as well 
