18 SHOOTING : 



I would advise they're carried in a case 



To keep the wire envelope in its place, 



For when that's bent or broken, simple shot 



Is better far, this must not be forgot. 



When to the field you go, I'd have you take 



Two extra nipples, for precaution's sake ; 



But as a Bramah lock they'll useless be, 



If you should happen to forget the key ; 



And should you ever have the luck to fire 



Your piece at twenty birds, (all I desire,) 



And the day's young, 'tis any thing but green 



To change the choak'd and foul ones for the clean. 



Unless you choose, a thing I much advise, 



Golding's condensing make to patronize. 



The last improvement in the wad's become 



So excellent, the charge scarce soils the gun ; 



For practice, from the trap I one day fir'd, 



Till both my arm and head were downright tir'd, 



Full forty times each barrel bang'd away, 



And yet my shoulder never felt the fray, 



