Excerpt from The Shooter's Hand-Book: Being the Treatise on Shooting From "the Rod and the Gun" Conviviality reigned at the old Hall of Oakleigh after the good old English fashion. The hills by day, and the walls by night, reverberated the sportsman's voice. As of yore, in that mansion of other days, the song was sung and the tale was told; Welcome presided; and Mirth and Modera tion - two fellows who seemed never to grow old were rarely absent. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.