CHAPTER XI 
WEATHER AND EXPENSES, WITH A NOTE 
ON PUNT CLOTHING 
As we have already said, a great saving in punt-removing, 
if much shifting is done, can be effected by having a specially 
constructed punt-wagon (this is not a punt-carriage), and, 
moreover, the risk of damage to the boat is thereby eliminated. 
Many vehicles supplied are wholly unsuitable to load a punt 
up on. A flat-topped rully of good length, or a timber lurry 
(well known in many places as a ‘‘pair of wheels,” although 
really there are two pairs of wheels to the vehicle), answers 
second best to a proper punt-wagon. Naturally, one will 
know that an article like a punt-wagon will be costly, and 
would hardly pay itself in any way, unless much travelling 
was done; then it would prove of valuable service. A punt- 
carriage is a fine tool, and one of great assistance in labour 
saving when the punt is housed some distance from the water; 
but a punt-wagon is an article possessed by few fowlers except 
those who do a lot of travelling. 
Now to original cost of gear. This is a matter which 
might be discussed almost beyond limit. In the first place, 
we shall suppose a person who has the money wishes to take 
up the sport of punting, and requires an estimate of a complete 
and up-to-date new outfit. With some slight variation, accord- 
ing to quality and size, we give the following sums: £150 
to £200. These figures are worked out as follows :—Double- 
handed punt, complete with all fittings, oars, sculls, poles, 
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