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SHOOTINa LIKE GENTLEMEInT. 
detect tlie latent riches. Fear and Hope are the deities of 
the moors, else would they lose their witchcraft. A gentle- 
man ought not to shoot like a gamekeeper any more than 
at billiards to play like a marker, nor with four-in-hand 
ought he to tool his prads like the Portsmouth dragsman. 
Shoot in a style equidistant from that of the gamekeeper on 
the one hand, and the bagman on the other, neither killing 
nor missing every bird ; but in the true spirit of the 
Aristotelian doctrine, leaning with a decided inclination 
towards the first rather than the second predicament. If 
we shoot too well one day, we are pretty sure to shoot as 
ill another ; in shooting, we shoot like gentlemen, scholars, 
poets, philosophers, as we are ; and looking at us you have 
a sight 
Of him who walks in glory and in joy, 
Following his dog upon the mountain side ; 
a man evidently not shooting for a wager, and performing 
a match for the mean motives of avarice or ambition, but 
blazing away at " his own sweet will," and, without seeming 
to know it, making a great noise in the world.' 
Have you heard the Blackcock's husky crow 
In the cool grey hght of morning, 
When the mists were on the vale below, 
And the mountain tops were all aglow 
With ruddy gleams, that served to show 
The pathway of the dawning ? 
