Related article: rapid succession instead of slipping the finger off on to the lie-down trigger. But it is by no means as easy, after shooting even a day with a single-trigger, to get into the way of using two triggers again. The reason is that it is easier to repeat a simple Order Indapamide act, such as pressing the trigger, than to execute more complex movements. The pulling of two separate trig- gers in quick succession has to be learned, and efficiency increases with Purchase Indapamide Online practice. How far it is from becoming ** second-nature " a trial of the single trigger will quickly convince one. There may be mechanical difficulties in the way still, but the principle of the one trigger is undoubtedly correct, and in that way the guns of the future will be constructed. Trigger. Reminiscences of Oxford Life and Sport. I. Having been asked to write some past experiences in the life of sport during an Oxford under- graduate's career, I have, after some hesitation, complied with the request, feeling that although personal recollections are always open to the charge of egotism, they may at the same time recall the memories of old and happy days to those who happen to read them, and may perhaps be of some interest to our successors who are now going through their course of studies at the Univer- sities and taking their degrees in literature and sport. With a father, grandfather, and great- voL. Lxxiv. — no. 488. grandfather all noted in their time as fine horsemen and devoted to fox-hunting, how could a fellow help being '* tarred Order Indapamide Online with the same brush ?" A pony was my first present before I could walk. I have been told that I jumped a wall when in a child's saddle, strapped in of course, and quite unintentionally on the part of my attendant ; still, it was a good be- ginning. As time went on, old school books bear record by crude pic- tures of foxhounds and huntsmen that sport was more in my mind than Greek verbs and Latin verse. One eventful holidays I well re- 19 JOHN HILL AND JEMMY, iSCo. REMINISCENCES OF OXFORD LIFE AND SPORT. 247 member being ** blooded ** after seeing my first fox killed by that past master of the art, John Walker. Those who knew him will, I think, bear me out when I say he never had a superior. He was the very essence of what a huntsman should be — keen, quick, quiet, cheery and fearless, trusted and respected by his Master (the late Sir Buy Indapamide Online Watkin Williams Wynn), and all who had the pleasure of hunting with the Wynnstay Hounds. One little incident stamps the man. After a capital gallop he ran his fox to ground, and decided that hounds should be rewarded by getting him out. Sir Watkin grew im- patient. " Walker, Walker." No answer from the huntsman nearly submerged in the earth. . . another appeal (those who knew Master and huntsman will re- member those appeals !) " Yes, Sir Watkin,*' was the reply. An- other pause. " Come away," mutters the Master below the well-known pocket handkerchief. (N.B. — The handkerchief invari- ably was used by Sir Watkin when in difficulties : it was a trick he had.) ''Close at him, Sir Watkin." Another silence and sundry mutterings. At last patience seemed to be exhausted. " Walker, Walker, Walker ! " The last time with great em- phasis. " Touch him with a stick. Sir Watkin." The hunts- man gained his point, and his Master left him in peace to finish his work. Sticks are not all the same length, and if I remember right, the stick on that occasion was on the lengthy side ! " Touch him with a stick. Sir Watkin," however, became more or less of a proverb from that day ! If the love of hunting and jumping over a country was to Buy Cheap Indapamide be subdued, the fates were against me. When at school at Rugby I remember running out to see a steeplechase ; where, I forget. All I do remember is that I ought not to have been there, and that the first man I saw there was Lord Combermere (Colonel the Hon. — Cotton), who at once ** spotted " me and " reported " me at home ! I need hardly say that my being there met with his entire approval. I got back to school, however, without being spotted by the authorities there, and added something to my sporting knowledge. Not every public-school boy has a chance of improving his riding Generic Indapamide during term time, but luck was in my way, and many were the afternoon half- holiday gallops 1 had, larking over sheep hurdles and other delightful obstacles, following the lead (tell it not in Gath !) of a present high and respected digni- tary of the Church, the Dean of Westminster, who mounted me on a wonderful little Welsh pony he then had. On leaving Rugby after a course of cramming, I found myself safely ensconced at University College, Oxford, and after four eventful years was able to write B.A. after my name. Purchase Indapamide The first few days of a Fresh- man's life at the University is not usually the liveliest time of his existence. There is, or at least there was with me, a sort of feeling of loneliness at being launched into a new world, as it were, with the uncertainty of many of your old school-fellows, who had preceded you, being again your companions as of old, and in what ** set " you would finally find yourself. 'Varsity etiquette demands that no Fresh- man renews or makes acquaint- ances until he is called upon. This excellent rule gives men a chance of being able to shake off, or keep as friends, those they H8 formcTly knew as boys at school. Rugby, although then famous for its football and cricket, did not turn out so many riding men ; and it was on this account that, looking round for kindred spirits, I had to make friends from other places, as riding was to be my line of amusement. BAILV'S tIACAZlNE. Buy Indapamide