[GENERAL DIRECTIONS FOR.] 



I OBSERVED, in the two last editions, that with re- 

 gard to a duck-gun If a sportsman could afford to have 

 one of the very best that could possibly be turned out 

 of hand, he would, I was confident, get better served 

 by Mr. Joseph Manton, than by any one in the trade ; 

 because his fine boring and other finishing were done 

 entirely by picked workmen in his own house, under 

 the immediate eye of himself, or his agents. Here he 

 had rooms, with a good light to work in, and the very 

 best of tools, and other conveniences, instead of having 

 the different parts of the gun hawked about the streets 

 from one poor journeyman to another ; at the risk of 

 ultimately requiring patchwork, in order to disguise 

 from the customer their not fitting together in a sound 

 and workmanlike manner. 



[Notwithstanding this establishment of Mr. Manton 

 has been broken up, I have reprinted the foregoing ob- 

 servations, as a hint for other tradesmen to follow his 

 example.] 



If, on the other hand, the shooter is content with a 

 good serviceable duck-gun that will kill well, and answer 

 every purpose, arid is not au fait enough to send his 

 own specific directions to Birmingham, he has only to 



