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No. 



Punt-guns 3 for starlight. 



1 for fair shots (or in the dark, 

 when birds are wilder than 

 in starlight). 



Packed by regular layers in car- C S. S. G. Above 100 yards, 

 tridges < L. G. Wild random shoot- 



( S. S. C 

 JL. G. 

 I ing. 



A. or AA. are the best for geese, particularly by day, 

 provided they are so tame as not to require S.S.G. In 

 my second edition, I talked of mixing shot ; but have 

 since had reason to doubt whether it answers so well. 



General Shrapnell tells me, that some man in Ireland 

 had contrived to imitate his shells, or spherical case 

 shot, with which he did wonders at the wildfowl. I 

 have been favoured, by a gentleman in Kent, with the 

 recipe for making and adapting them to small guns. 

 But lest it might prove improper to publish it (which 

 I could not well and clearly do without an engraving) 

 I shall say no more on the subject, but leave this ad- 

 mirable invention as the valuable property of the British 

 ordnance. 



