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... ground ; but the exception is too rare to be worthy of serious notice , and certainly has only the weight of a feather in the scale of disadvan- tages , against the overloaded scale of advantages on the opposite side of the balance ...
... ground ; but the exception is too rare to be worthy of serious notice , and certainly has only the weight of a feather in the scale of disadvan- tages , against the overloaded scale of advantages on the opposite side of the balance ...
Side 34
... grounds , breech- loaders are safer in their general use than a muzzle - loader ever was , or ever can be . In loading and in unloading they are perfectly safe , which cannot be said of the muzzle - loader , the contrary being ...
... grounds , breech- loaders are safer in their general use than a muzzle - loader ever was , or ever can be . In loading and in unloading they are perfectly safe , which cannot be said of the muzzle - loader , the contrary being ...
Side 39
... ground , when the other barrel went off , nothing whatever having touched the lock , as I was standing in an open place , and no dog was near me at the time . As I never allow the muzzle of my own gun to be towards myself , having ...
... ground , when the other barrel went off , nothing whatever having touched the lock , as I was standing in an open place , and no dog was near me at the time . As I never allow the muzzle of my own gun to be towards myself , having ...
Side 41
... ground . A serious alarm was the sole consequence , in addition to a very instructive lesson conveyed as to the future , not only as regards the cocks of the gun , but also as to the direction of the muzzle , the escape having been an ...
... ground . A serious alarm was the sole consequence , in addition to a very instructive lesson conveyed as to the future , not only as regards the cocks of the gun , but also as to the direction of the muzzle , the escape having been an ...
Side 42
... ground , when I found that one shot had entered the eye of one of my dogs standing about fifteen or twenty yards to the right of the direction in which I shot what caused the shot to go thus obliquely I cannot conjecture ; the gun was a ...
... ground , when I found that one shot had entered the eye of one of my dogs standing about fifteen or twenty yards to the right of the direction in which I shot what caused the shot to go thus obliquely I cannot conjecture ; the gun was a ...
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