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COLONEL HA^'GER TO 



Never load a 

 Gun, for the 

 defence of 

 your house, 

 with Ball. 



a thief be forcing even your bed-room door^ 

 shot will shoot through any common bed- 

 room door, which is not made of three-inch 

 oak, or mahogany. If you hear them in 

 the house, throw up the Avindow, and cry 

 out, Fire ! every body then will come to 

 your assistance; but if you cry out. Thieves ! 

 the devil of one will move, and, for certain, 

 no watchman. 



I am told, by the officers in Bow- street, 

 that the very first thing a thief does, when 

 he breaks into a house, is to open both the 

 front and back doors, so that, in case he be 

 chsturbed, he may have a fair start. If you 

 see him, from your window, brushing out, 

 and your gun be loaded with a ball, j^ou 

 most likely will miss him when you fire ; 

 but, with shot, you are sure to stick as 

 many into him, as v/ill employ a surgeon, 

 for two. hours, to pick them out of his body. 

 I always keep a duck-gun, loaded wdth two 

 ounces and a half of No. 2, patent shot, by 

 my bedside : this will pepper any one, even 

 at one hundred yards distance. 



A gun may be kept in perfect order, by 



