CHAPTER XVIII. 



SPORTING. 



Gun cases. Game bags. Fishing rods. Fish bags. Fish baskets. Self-filling bottles. Sports 

 men's flasks. Sportsmen's canteens and fishermen's bottles. Sportsmen's portable cups. Shot- 

 bags. Powder flasks. Pouches. Sportsmen's pantaloons. Sportsmen's boots. Sportsmen's 

 boats. 



A VERY considerable number of articles for the use of sports- 

 men have been made of vulcanized gum-elastic materials, and 

 found to answer so well, that the demand for them is constantly 

 increasing. Among numerous articles of this kind, those here 

 described are thought to be particularly deserving of notice. 



GUN CASES. 



Gun cases are manufactured of non-elastic compound or 

 vegetable leather, after the method of gum-elastic hollow-ware, 

 and are designed as a substitute for those heretofore made of sole 

 leather. 



When the breech is made tight, in the same manner as the 

 gun-covers described in this work, they will, like them, not only 

 buoy up the gun in the water, and protect it from wet, but also 

 answer in part the purposes of a life-preserver. See plate xxii., 

 fiff. 1. 



GAME BAGS. 



To prevent these bags from being uncomfortably warm for 

 the sportsman, they are made of perforated gum-elastic plated 



