22 SHOOTING : 



With half a pound of lard, you then with me, 

 Having once tried it, will no doubt agree. 

 If for a year or two a gun has been 

 Laid by, you can't expect the barrels clean 

 If not oft look'd to, and with care wip'd out, 

 Rust to prevent that none, I think, will doubt; 

 If such neglect you fear, then fill with suet 

 Each barrel, and corrosion 's stranger to it. 



The shot and powder flasks but one word claim, 

 Those are the best on which Sykes stamps his name; 

 The double shot pouch is to be preferr'd, 

 For reasons that before have been observ'd, 

 But on their merits I shall not here dwell, 

 'T would be superfluous, as they're known so welL 

 Yet numerous others, many foreign made, 

 For elegance of show, throw in the shade 

 His solid flasks ; still things that simplest are, 

 If equally effective, will by far 



