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with 14 oz. of No. 5, will stop any thing short of a tearing 
old cock bird at any distance short of fifty yards, or at 
that, if it be an out-and-out good London gun, and beyond 
that there is no certainty with any gun. 
Such a gun, I can safely assure any one, even if he be 
a strong man, and a stout, enduring walker, in addition to 
the other traps, ammunition, and the like, which he will 
have to carry, even if he be provided with an attendant to 
take charge of the game—which, by the way, is indispen- 
sable, since it would be something of a puzzler for one to 
find himself weighed down with a back load of thirty or 
forty brace of two lb. prairie-fowl—will be found quite as 
much weight as it will be either profitable or pleasant to 
carry during an all-day tramp over a rolling prairie in the 
month of August, or even on a warm Indian Summer day 
of brown September. 
The instructions for hunting pointers in the open, as 
given before, are all especially applicable here. You can 
hardly get them to range too high or wide, as they are 
constantly in full sight, provided they will stand stiff and 
firm, until you can get up to them, and that they back in 
first-rate style, without the necessity of shouting, rating, or 
whistling to them. 
Grouse are a shy, wild bird, at best ; and in no bird of 
sport do finely broken dogs, that will beat their ground 
silently and steadily as you wish them, ata wave of the 
hand, drop, stop, or come to heel, at a motion without a 
word or whistle, tell more effectual a tale than on the 
prairie. 
If your dogs be perfect and thoroughly trained, there 
