The young sportsman's manual - or, recreations in shooting; with some account of the game found in the British Islands, and practical directions for the management of dog and gun (1849) (14586594047)

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Title: The young sportsman's manual : or, recreations in shooting ; with some account of the game found in the British Islands, and practical directions for the management of dog and gun
Year: 1849 (1840s)
Authors: Carleton, John William, d. 1856
Subjects: Hunting
Publisher: London : Chapman and Hall
Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation



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^\■. llATl^EV, YOUNG SPORTSMANS MANUAL; OE, RECREATIONS IN SHOOTING. WITH SOME ACCOUNT OF THE GAME OF THE BRITISH ISLANDS; PKACTICAL DIRECTIONS FOR THE MANAGEMENT OFTHE DOG AND GUN. By CKAVEN. With Sixty-two Embellishments, Engraved on Wood by Frederick W. Branston,from Original Drawings by William Harvey. SecontJ lEDition. LONDON:CHAPMAN AND HALL, 186 STRAND. MDCCCXLIX. ADVEETISEMEls^T. The following pages are meant literally to teach the youngidea how to shoot, and to set forth a popular sport in thecharacter of a rational rural recreation. Ko such work had yetbeen written. Colonel Hawker, indeed, calls his amusing andthoroughly practical volume, Instructions to Young Sports-men; but as a class book, it is only suited to a school forgrown children. A youth ambitious of the Scottish moors, orto essay his devoir among the pheasants and partridges, caresas little about a self-acting machine for turning the insidesof gun-barrels, as for the internal economy of a self-actingpiano, or ayoungsportsmansm00carl