THE wonderful improvements and increase of light 

 coaches have of late rendered travelling sportsmen 

 more independent of the mails, or to use the modern 

 term, "paper-carts? so that we are no longer at the 

 mercy of guards and coachmen for taking a gun-case 

 on a journey. But, in the few instances where it may 

 be found inconvenient, the shooter may carry his gun 

 in a sail-cloth, and over that an oil-skin case : or, as a 

 safer plan, have a short piece of wood, just to fill up 

 the hollow of his stock, made flat at the top, and with 

 loops to receive the bolts at the bottom. Let the parts 

 where his locks fit in have pieces of wood fitted into 

 them also; and the locks may be put in his port- 

 manteau. The stock, thus secured and covered over, 

 may then be safely put in the coach-seat, and he may 

 either lay the barrel with it, or cany it in his hand ; 

 or sling both, in a bit of canvas,"under the inside of the 

 roof. But, with copper-cop percussion-guns, all this 

 trouble, about the locks, may be avoided ; as they are 

 more simple, and therefore less liable to accidents. 



