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Excerpt from Prairie and Forest: A Description of the Game of North America, With Personal Adventures in Their Pursuit To lay down rules by the observance of which the ma jority of bad shots may become experts is sufficiently easy; but the trouble is, however great the determination to fol low the given precepts, so soon as game is flushed the ih structions are thrown to the winds, and bang, bang go, both barrels, with the same hurried unsuccessful results as previously. That more birds are missed by shooting too quickly, I assert as indisputable; and knowing this to be the case, why will it continue to be practiced? For this reason, that many are so fearfully nervous that for the mo ment they have no control of their actions, or they are so timid that although firing off their gun they consider a duty, they believe the sooner it is got through with the better: neither of such pupils is ever likely to become a crack shot. I have a friend who is, without exception, the most unlucky Shot - I was going to say the worst - that ever I met. We at one period very frequently shot to gether, and each evening, on our tramp home, he was cer tain to tell me that he had discovered the reason for his ap parent want of skill. How various the causes attributed, would be beyond possibility of enumeration; however, he always devised some means of counteracting them - viz., by stuffing cotton in his ears, not to hear the spring of the game! To wear a loose collar, so that he could the better. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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