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strap on the side to serve as a handle for car- 

 rying. My own, of three-eighths inch pine, strongly 

 dovetailed together, in which I usually carry 180 

 short 10-bore shells, loading-tools, three pounds of 

 powder, half a sack of shot, and wads and caps 



The Ammunition-Box. 



to match, is 15 inches long, 12 inches wide, 

 and 5 inches deep, and is . divided into three 

 compartments, as in the small foregoing sketch. 

 The powder-canister is of tin, square, and made 

 to fit in proper place. The loading-tools, all that 

 are necessary with Sturtevant shells, are : a rod 

 for pushing down wads, pressing on and ejecting 



