DRESS OF A SHOOTER. 117 



hands warm in frosty weather is a matter of necessity 

 in shooting, I shall recommend a little bit of copper 

 wire fastened either to the lower button, or the shot 

 belt, which is always ready as a gun-picker ; never 

 rusts ; will not injure the platina of a touch-hole ; and, 

 if you fall, will bend, instead of running into you. 

 This, if bent to a right angle, does very well too as a 

 probe for the nipples of detonaters. 



A dissertation on a shooting jacket would be 

 absurd, farther than to recommend, that, if you wish 

 to have what is commonly called a liarepocltet, it be 

 lined with oiM'hi, by which you may sponge off the 

 blood, instead of having, as many do, a jacket, that 

 would serve as a drag for a pack of harriers, by way 

 of a nosegay for ladies at a breakfast table. 



