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IS never bad, If the (lock and furniture be good. 
This is the only circumftance to which they 
attend, when they make a purchafe. As to 
the barrel, they care but little whether it flioots 
well or ill, becaufe they boaft of having a me- 
thod that will corred: the faults of the very 
worft. 
To correft, In their fenfe of the word, is not 
to make a barrel good that was not fo before ; 
it Is merely to make it Ihootflraight, which with 
them Is the fame thing. There is, indeed, no 
great ingenuity in their method ; but It is at 
leaft fimple, and its fuccefs, which is the refult 
©f experience, always certain. 
It confifts, as they exprefs it, de roer op de 
fchoot.^ In bringing the gun to the mark : in 
other words, by dint of firing at a mark they 
afcertain its defeft. If it fhoot too high or too 
low, to the right or to the left, they place upon 
the breech a fecond moveable fight, which they 
raife or fink, incUne this way or that, as the 
defeft may require, till they facceed in ftiiking 
the mark. Arrived at this point, they fix the 
fight, and the gun becomes inftantly a good 
one. This operation, it muft be acknowledged, 
requires extreme patience, and can only be per- 
formed 
