WADDING. Ill 



thin, and with vent. This, and a few trifling improve- 

 ments in wadding, I was anxious to see put in practice ; 

 as I have had my day, and therefore wished to serve 

 others, if I could. I then resolved to explain this to 

 some new wadding-merchant; and, as the gunmakers 

 have enough to do, if they mind their guns, I thought 

 no one more proper to select than Mr. Joyce, as the 

 quality of his waddings has proved most admirable; 

 and he is a practical chemist, who looks a little to the 

 esprit de corps, as well as to the . s. d. He will 

 therefore bring out his new sample for the ensuing 

 season, and time will show which, of all, is the best. 

 But if the wadding-merchants object to the trouble of 

 serving two sorts, let me recommend young sportsmen 

 to wad their shot with thin pasteboard, cut by a dented 

 punch. For the powder, however, they should use one 

 kind or other of these anointed waddings ; or their guns 

 will soon get " leaded," and become as dry as the very 

 subject I have been writing on. 



