86 THE COMPLETE SPORTSMAN 



1 fowling-piece (for fowls) ; 



1 Punt-gun (for punts) ; 



1 '44 rook rifle (for crows) ; 



1 Martini '303 Cocktail ; 



1 small smooth bore (for small smooth boars) ; 



1 rough bore (for wild boars) ; 



1 catapult (when all else fails) ; 



and (if shooting in Pomerania) 1 Pom-Pom. 



Each of these weapons should be supplied 

 with a suitable number of cartridges, shells, 

 bullets, grape-shot, slugs, snails, brickbats, 

 hand-grenades, bombs, etc., and the ammuni- 

 tion must invariably be carefully packed in 

 zinc-lined boxes, to each of which should be 

 attached a tin-opener. 



I knew of a case where a man went to Central 

 Africa to shoot elands, and it was not until he 

 had journeyed up-country for several months, 

 and was at least eight hundred miles from the 

 nearest outpost of civilization, that he discovered 

 that he had no tin-opener wherewith to broach 

 his ammunition-boxes. He struggled for three 

 days to cut a passage through the heavy zinc 

 lids, working first of all with a boot- jack, then 

 with a button-hook, and subsequently with a 

 corkscrew, a shoe-horn, and an implement for 

 taking the stones out of the hooves of zebras 

 (which he fortunately had in his knife), but all 

 in vain. Finally, in despair, he attempted to 

 batter one of the boxes open with a piece of 



