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appealing once more to the above rate of cal- 

 culating time from the instant of spring, there 

 is more than enough, in the most rapid snap- 

 shot that ever was made, for a well-practised 

 hand to bring up the cock of his piece where 

 he wants it : and if a man is so much fluttered 

 as to risk remaining half-cocked upon the pre- 

 sent, unless he sees that he is cocked before- 

 hand, I can only say, he must utterly conquer 

 this flutter before he will be a shot ; and I will 

 make him do so before I have done with him. 



I have been led away by this explanatory 

 comment upon the drill, into some part of its 

 application in the field. I must now revert to 

 it, in order to exemplify a variation of practice 

 in the business of coming to an instant present; 

 which may be of great utility for acquiring the 

 power of a decisive snap-shot, and which is of 

 immediate importance in the more confined 

 service of shooting in cover: but previous to 

 which, a perfect command of hand, by a clear 

 separation of the second and third motion, and 

 of cpnjing up decisively to mark, must be 

 attained. 



The second motion, at* "Make ready! or 



* See Drill Exercise, p. 184. 



