He see'd it was wrong.

'By the powers!' sais Pat, 'this is a left-handed boot,' and he brought the gun to the other shoulder, and then shot to his left eye.
'Fegs!' sais Pat, 'this gun was made for a squint eye, for I can't get a right strait sight of the critter, either side.' So I fixt it for him and told him which eye to sight by.

'An excellent gun entirely,' sais Pat, 'but it tante made like the rifles we have.' "Ain't they strange critters, them Irish, Squire?
That feller never handled a rifle afore in all his born days; but unless it was to a priest, he wouldn't confess that much for the world.

They are as bad as the English that way; they always pretend they know every thing.
"'Come, Pat,' sais I, 'blaze away now.' Back goes the hind leg agin, up bends the back, and Bull-Dog rises slowly to his shoulder; and then he stared, and stared, until his arm shook like palsy.

Chee, chee, chee, went the squirrel agin, louder than ever, as much as to say, 'Why the plague don't you fire?
I'm not a goin' to stand here all day, for you this way,' and then throwin' his tail over his back, he jumped on to the next branch.
"'By the piper that played before Moses!' sais Pat, 'I'll stop your chee, chee, cheein' for you, you chatterin' spalpeen of a devil, you'.
So he ups with the rifle agin, takes a fair aim at him, shuts both eyes, turns his head round, and fires; and "Bull-Dog," findin' he didn't know how to hold her tight to the shoulder, got mad, and kicked him head over heels, on the broad of his back.