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the shoulders, it swings and thumps about when 

 running, or empties its contents on the mud when 

 stooping to pick up a bird. Such bags are all very 

 well for land work, but they won't keep the cases 

 dry fowling. Chasing lively cripples up to near the 

 knees in ooze, with a soppy swollen cartridge half 

 in and half out of the breech of a gun, is not 

 pleasant. 



You need never hook on the cartridge-bag to 

 the belt except when tripping on shore after a 



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Latter hooks on or off as required. In a fowling-punt the bag 

 may hang on a piece of wire stretched between two screws under 

 side-decks when not required. 



shot. When afloat merely raise its lid or flap as it 

 lies on the bottom boards, or hangs under the side- 

 decks, and take one out as wanted. At all times 

 carry a cartridge extractor tied by a leathern thong 

 to the belt or bag itself; it is then near what it 

 is required for. There is no time to search for 

 it, nor can you spare a hand to put it back into the 

 pocket when done with ; it must merely be dropped 

 from the fingers when used, and then you can load 

 and fire as fast as you please, and fast firing means 

 saving birds. " Tie it to a button-hole," I hear you 



