To avoid book-making, I shall now cancel six pages, 

 the experiments for which had cost me much time and 

 expense, and say no more about paper, pasteboard, cork, 

 leather, &c. &c., but, in a few words, name what I have 

 proved to be the best wadding for duck-guns. For all 

 shoulder duck-guns use Wilkinson's felt wadding, about 

 a third in thickness the size of your caliber. But for 

 long punt-guns, and all other water-guns that are opened 

 behind, you will find that, after all, nothing beats a 

 tight-wound ball of the best picked oakum ; because 

 it springs to every gradation of the caliber. I could 

 publish fifty original pages on the subject, but who 

 would take the trouble to read them ? and what would 

 be the use of this, after the sporting world has done me 

 the honour to confide in what I recommend ? 



