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bushel of marbles, such as the boys play 

 with at taw ; put a double handful into the 

 cannon ; and have clay balls, just the size 

 of the caliber of the gun, made and baked 

 at the brick-kilns, first boring three or four 

 holes with an iron, nearly as big as your 

 little finger, through and through them. 

 This ball, when fired from a cannon, will 

 make a most terrible whizzing noise, and, 

 together with the marbles buzzing about a 

 fellow's ears, would make him think that 

 the very devil was in the wood. I would 

 also build my gamekeeper a house on one 

 flank on the opposite side of the wood, with 

 no door nor window below. The lower 

 rooms might be easily lighted from above ; 

 and the door ten feet from the ground. 

 He might draw the ladder up at night. In 

 this castle he could stand a siege, for it 

 AYOuld be impossible to set fire to the house. 

 And a round tower of about thirty feet, like 

 the martello towers, only in miniature, with 

 a six-pounder mounted at the top of it, 

 with a door going out from the corner of 

 his bed-room up to the platform on which 

 the cannon is planted, shoidd be also built. 



