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I would have a thick one of horn for a thin coat, and a thin one of metal for a thick coat. Then I had them made with springs to diminish the recoil. I was laughed at by every one who knew anything about the matter; but I was so eaten up by self-conceit that I imagined no one was _au fait_ at guns but myself, and would take no advice. My shooting was not what a sportsman would call
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Dash it, Muster Carrington, said an old Somersetshire farmer to me one day;