dressing for $tmts auto Canoes. 



To keep gunning punts and canoes from leaking, 

 or, as those who use them call it, weeping, melt a 

 pint of tar with a pound of * pitch , and either half a 

 pint of common oil, or a proportional quantity of suet. 

 You have then only to pour a little of this mixture 

 into the seams of your punt, and instead of bedaubing 

 her all over the bottom, as we did in the old school, 

 seven or eight years ago, have the bottom painted, 

 with one or two thin coats of red lead, which will last 

 much longer, and with which the boat rows much 

 lighter. 



White rosin and mutton suet is even a better 

 dressing, and by far the lightest of any. To avoid 

 rubbing the bottom of your punt every time she is 

 hauled ashore, have two small rollers, by which you 

 will considerably save her. 



Have your canoes and punts, previously to being 

 put together, painted under every timber with red 

 lead, and they will (to the no small annoyance of the 

 builder) last you twice as long. But where the other 

 paint is to go, do not put red lead, as white will 

 neither look nor take so well upon it. 



