DUCK GUNS. 



that if they were ordered to bore a barrel like a 

 blunderbuss ; a bugle ; or a gas-pipe ; no matter 

 which they must do it. 



It has been a grand object with some gunmakers 

 to suppress the reputation of Fullerd and Lancaster 

 by punching their names out of the barrels, and 

 putting on their own. This may be all fair when 

 these barrelmakers are only employed for the rough 

 work ; but this is frequently done even when they 

 have finished the boring, and completed almost every 

 part of the barrels, and breechings, except the mere 

 polish with sand-paper. It therefore often happens 

 that, for this second baptism, and a few dandy orna- 

 ments, which are quite out of character for duck 

 guns, the customer is made to pay an enormous per 

 ceritage above the fair trade profit. Several of these 

 gunmakers declare to me that they get nothing by 

 what they call " making /" duck guns. Very well, 

 then : if so, by placarding the following names, 

 where they cannot be punched out again, I shall be 

 doing them essential service. 



WILLIAM FULLERD, No. 56, Compton-street. 



Cler ken well. 



CHARLES LANCASTER, No. 26, York-street, 

 Gloucester-place. 



(But with regard to common sporting guns, the 

 case alters ; because the fitting up of them is now 

 pretty well understood by every one ; and they require 

 so many little appendages that the least trouble, as I 



