Now that up-country shooting trips have commenced in earnest, and me dependent firing is likely to be the order of the day for some time to come, it may not be out of place to take into consider some of the conditions which make or mar the pleasantest of excursions, And, naturally, first and foremost comes the consideration of the preventability of accidents. Acoidents, as a rale, arise from two causes only—iguorauce and excitability. We do not moan to gantond that the most experienced @porteman.may not auexpeotedly find himself in grief, for accidents will happen in the best regulared families; but we emphatically spectral to the shooting public; to whom it more distinctly and diceoily those are most likely to take umbrage
applies. But ask the, majority of shooting men to puta-gun toget able in the extreme. Then again their efforts are but too often
at the various ways, all more or less in the field, when "death with levelled dart stalks beside.one" all the Cases constantly ooonr of men crousing slippery. bridges with' toit weapons at
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