521 SHOOTING WITH A SMALL GUN ON A RIVER, GENERAL ADVICE FOR THE HEALTH AND COMFORT OF A YOUNG SPORTSMAN............ 524 How to provide for himself at the last stage on his route, How to cater, and make palatable Bad Provisions...... 527 How to fare tolerably, while a bad Caterer would be starved out of the place....... What few Medicines to make choice of, as being most useful when confined to a small quantity of Baggage 533 Best Precautions against Cold, Rheumatism, Tooth- ache, Ague, &c ..... List of the very few Articles that he could take in his Portmanteau, with which he or his Servant might have the means of making a tolerable dish out of the most Interspersed occasionally with a little Advice to the very Young Sportsman, on more General Subjects. b Penalty for having Game at a prohibited time Game, the exclusive property of the Landlord Increased privilege of Landlord ....... Increased Penalty, when five, or more, are concerned.. 582 Option for old action, OR new penalty for trespass...... 584 Specific instructions how to warn off a trespasser (for GUNS AND GUNMAKERS. THE great demand for this work having exhausted the fifth and sixth editions in so short a space of time, I was resolved that the printer's devil and I should have absolution from sporting subjects for at least a few years, and therefore inflicted on my. publishers treble doses of copies; or, seriously speaking, I gave very large impressions of the seventh and eighth editions. About four years and a half had elapsed since the former was in the press, when there took place among the gunmakers a complete revolution. Poor Joe Manton the life and soul of the trade- died, and was buried in the cemetery at Kensington. Several epitaphs to his memory were prepared at the request of his family and sporting friends. The one chosen was that which I wrote, and it shall be here inserted- not as an essay with pretensions to merit, but a memorial of justice to departed talent:— "In memory of Mr. Joseph Manton, who died, universally regretted, on the 29th day of June, 1835, aged 69. This humble tablet is placed here by his afflicted family, merely to mark where are deposited his mortal remains. But an everlasting monument to his unrivalled genius is already established in every quarter of B |