Excerpt from Conversational Hints for Young Shooters: A Guide to Polite Talk in Field, Covert, and Country House From this point you can diverge into a dis cussion Of the latest improvements, as, c.g., 'are ejectors really valuable This is sure to bring out the man who has tried ejectors, and has given them up, because last year, at one Of the hottest corners he ever knew, when the sky was simply black with pheasants, the ejectors Of both his guns got stuck. He will talk Of this incident as another man might talk Of the loss Of a friend or a fortune. Here you may say By gad, what frightful luck' What did you do He will then narrate his com minatory interview with his gun-maker others will burst in, and defend ejectors, or praise their own gun-makers, and the ball, once set rolling, will not be stopped until you take your places for the first beat Of the afternoon, just as Markham is telling you that his Old governor never shoots with anything but an Old muzzle-loader by Manton, and makes deuced good practice with it too. 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.