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place on the list of the Lord High Executioner. 
Surely if there is a time when he must be aware 
that he wants more cartridges, that time is at the 
finish of a beat, when the beaters are close at hand. 
Men who shoot with guns of any but the con- 
ventional twelve-bore seldom run out of cartridges. 
Possibly the fact that they are not likely to be able 
to borrow has as much as anything to do with their 
ample provision. Be that as it may, I knew a gun 
who gave it out as part of his ethics that he did not 
believe in taking more than forty cartridges to any 
shoot. Though he never tried to thrust his rule 
down the throats of other people, he had no objection 
to taking a dip from another man’s bag when his 
forty rounds had been consumed. The majority of 
people who borrow cartridges find it easier to 
borrow than to repay. 
It is not given to every man to be able to pay the 
greedy gun in his own coin. I do not say that good 
shots are more likely to be greedy than bad ones, 
but when a good shot is greedy, his greediness is 
specially annoying. The good shot has a very 
practical cure for greediness on the part of an 
inferior shooter, which very soon cures him. I 
remember a little incident connected with a greedy 
and bad shot that occurred before I was out of my 
teens. It was a matter of a cock pheasant—and we 
thought something of a cock pheasant in those days. 
The bird was coming nicely for me, toward my left 
