. Sport . hurry and heat of the action, even these professorsshoot a little behind a bird, and he carries on sorelywounded, but is usually marked down and gatheredby watchful keepers, who stand with retrievers farbehind the guns. Sometimes, too, though still more 142 SPORT. rarely, tlie very best professor among them, ^^C- CONFIDENCE. almost world-wide reputation, will clean miss aneasy shot, for the man who never misses has yet to. CONFIDENCE MISPLACED. be born. And now many of the pheasants will no CO VER T-SHOOTING. lonsfer face the forwardguns, and curl back overthe beaters heads o
. Sport . hurry and heat of the action, even these professorsshoot a little behind a bird, and he carries on sorelywounded, but is usually marked down and gatheredby watchful keepers, who stand with retrievers farbehind the guns. Sometimes, too, though still more 142 SPORT. rarely, tlie very best professor among them, ^^C- CONFIDENCE. almost world-wide reputation, will clean miss aneasy shot, for the man who never misses has yet to. CONFIDENCE MISPLACED. be born. And now many of the pheasants will no CO VER T-SHOOTING. lonsfer face the forwardguns, and curl back overthe beaters heads only tomeet their doom from thetwo guns who are nowstanding back in the the beaters close in asemicircle at the end ofthe clump, the laggardbirds only rise just at thefence, and give lower,nearer, and less interest-ing chances. These seemthe easiest shots of allbut they are not so ; no-thing, I dont know why,is more difficult than alow broadside shot at apheasant, perhaps becausehe looks so common-place,obvious, and easy, and
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