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    Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, December 10, 1892
    Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, December 10, 1892
    Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, December 10, 1892
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    Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, December 10, 1892

    By Various Various and F. C. (Francis Cowley) Burnand

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    Release dateNov 26, 2013
    Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, December 10, 1892

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      Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, December 10, 1892 - Various Various

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      December 10, 1892, by Various

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      Title: Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, December 10, 1892

      Author: Various

      Editor: Francis Burnand

      Release Date: March 7, 2007 [EBook #20759]

      Language: English

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      PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.

      VOL. 103.

      DECEMBER 10, 1892.

      CONVERSATIONAL HINTS FOR YOUNG SHOOTERS.

      The Smoking-Room (continued).

      I may assume, that after the terrible example given in my last chapter, you have firmly made up your mind never on any account to take service in the great army of bores. But this determination is not all that is necessary. A man must constantly keep a strict guard on himself, lest he should unconsciously deviate even for a few minutes into the regions of boredom. Whatever you do, let nothing tempt you to relate more than once any grievance you may have. Nothing of course is more poisonous to the aggrieved one than to stifle his grievance absolutely. Once, and once only, he may produce it to his friends. I shall be blamed, perhaps, for making even this slight concession. Please be careful, therefore, not to abuse it. Is there in the whole world a more ridiculous sight than a strong, healthy, well-fed sportsman who wearies his companions one after another with the depressing recital of his ill-luck, or of the dastardly behaviour of the head-keeper in not stopping the whole party for half an hour to search for an imaginary bird, which is supposed to have fallen stone-dead somewhere or other; or of the iniquities of the man from whom he bought his cartridges in not loading them with the right charge; or any of the hundred inconveniences and injuries to which sportsmen are liable. All these things may be as he says they are. He may be the most unfortunate, the most unjustly treated of mankind. But why insist upon it? Why check the current of sympathy by the dam of constant repetition? And, after all, how trivial and absurd the whole thing is! Even a man whose career has been ruined by malicious persecution will be avoided like a pest if it is known that he dins the account of his wrongs into everyone's ears. How, then, shall the sufferer by the petty injuries of ordinary sport be listened to with patience? Of all bores, the grievancemonger is the fiercest and worst. Lay this great truth by in your memory, and be mindful of it in more important matters than sport when the occasion arises.

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      I have been asked to say, whether a man may abuse his gun? I reply emphatically, no. A gun is not a mere ordinary machine. Its beautiful arrangement of locks, and springs, and catches, and bolts, and pins, and screws, its unaccountable perversities, its occasional fits of sulkiness, its lovely brown complexion, and its capacity both for kicking and for smoking, all prove that a gun is in reality a sentient being of a very high order of intelligence. You may be quite certain that if you abuse your gun, even when you may imagine it

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