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 judge from your speech that you are an Englishman, and if you are, you of course know more about this make of guns than I can tell you. It is a Greener."

The young man seemed pleased to know that he had succeeded in making the proprietor believe that he was not an American, but he did not seem to appreciate the gun, nor did he handle it as if he were accustomed to the use of fire-arms. He hardly knew how to bring it to his face properly.

"I—aw! Hit's wery fine, no doubt," said he, after he had made an awkward pretense of examining the gun, "but I—aw! I want something a little more showy and not quite so 'igh-priced, don't yer know? Something that I can take pride in exhibiting to my 'unting friends, don't yer know?"

"We have guns that are more showy than this, but they are cheap affairs, and we don't recommend them. How would this one suit you?" said the proprietor; and as he spoke, he opened another door in the show-case, and took my bragging friend down from his place on the antlers.