HOUSEBOAT-GUN-DOG 37 



have been intended as a flint lock when 

 begun on and was altered to percussion ill 

 the course of manufacture. " The cocks 

 are flat with blued steel let in the noses. 

 The nipples are set in rare ends of breeches, 

 but the lock plates are cut away as for flint. 

 Stub twist 15 guage barrels, 29^ in. long; 

 bend of stock, i ^-2 % in. ; length of stock, 

 14^ in. ; weight of gun 6 Ibs. n ozs." 



The genuineness and the accuracy of 

 the descriptions of the above guns are 

 vouched for by the highest authority ; and 

 one more by this celebrated maker may be 

 added : these are a pair of bar lock 

 percussion double guns. " Stub twist 

 barrels 29^ in. 18 bore; length of stocks 

 14^ in ; bend at combs i^ in ; bend at heel 

 2 in ; the pair weighs 6 Ibs. each." 



It has been observed that Manton was 

 not an extremist either in the length of the 

 barrel or the bend of the stock, but shaped 

 both on medium lines, which experience 

 has attested as more effective for a sporting 

 gun. There is but one of those described 

 the bore of which is similar to that of a gun 

 now in use, a twenty bore, with barrels a 

 fraction more than two inches longer than 



