THE GUN, AND HOW TO USE IT. 
Arter becoming possessed of a good gun, in accordance 
with the means, object and idea of the individual, the one 
thing essential is to know how to use it. And this know- 
ledge, once acquired, lasts for ever, yet does not last un- 
changed, or, like most sublunary things, change only to 
deteriorate ; for what is at first acquired with difficulty 
and much painstaking, gradually becomes a habit, ripens 
into a second nature, and, constantly improved by practice, 
by experience, by freshly-discovered resources and trials 
of the power of the weapon, shall be at last, almost, as it 
were, an innate instinct, acting without deliberation or 
