CLEANING GUNS. 57 



invented), you must, for the moment, leave the pans 

 open, or no powder will pass. 



If a stupid fellow wedges dry tow into your gun, 

 with the cleaning rod, pour boiling water on it, and 

 the rod may then be turned round and drawn out. 

 I remember this occurred with a large punt-gun, at 

 which I caught four men hawling away most un- 

 mercifully, but to no effect. I luckily came by and 

 saved the destruction of the cleaning-rod, if not the 

 injury of the barrel, by suggesting this simple con- 

 trivance. 



These little remedies, I am aware, must be insipid 

 to the reader ; but, when wanted, often prove worth 

 double the price of a book ; so that I have never 

 failed to pencil down, and afterwards insert here, all 

 that I thought had the least chance of being original 

 to the average of sportsmen. 



