Excerpt from Fifty Years With the Gun and Rod: Including Tables Showing the Velocity, Distance, Penetration or Effect of Shot, Calculated by Leonard Case, Esq., Gun Trials, by the Chicago Field; How and Where to "Hold," Etc Besides, he can steal and plagiarize to his heart's content, from all his brilliant neighbors, and only give them credit in his preface. The wily critic will soon discover the brilliant and useful extracts (showing the author's good sense) uncredited, and will come down on him like a buzzard on a mourning d0ve, and charge him before all the world with the plagiarism. This is just what was expected. When the sharp critic has worked up the whole country into a savage and unrelenting disgust, and made things ripe to send the guilty culprit into pluto or oblivion, he turns the tables on his enemy by triumphantly referring to his preface. There due credit is given to all. The criminal is acquitted in a blaze of glory. He has the public sympathy as a martyr. The just and generous public knew all the time he was not a common thief and, priding themselves on their sound sagacity, they summarily squelch the crest-fallen critic, and - buy the book. 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.