, TH-E G-OM, at AND ABROAD 
had jaws, botv/ft-en which » ■«£ r|t'rites was tightly held. When it 
desired to tire, the pan w«n- the cock lowered, ao that 'thepyj^lH^ 
entered tiie pan, being p.- ia*f>|i.t|jgpigalnst the edjge of the wlae4^; 
On ptilBag tlie trigger, .«mwpiiag wn© teleasedv the wheel rwcdvedl 
aiut its rough odge the .pyrites and , stnick spar&, >vhldh 
^radiiaJ*y Dxipivwvd, ..pVaya Macertuya 40 . action., Jd, was too*'*- 
compHoate..! ,,>■ ' W8P4I 
of ie. -^l^rfrigi-akl weapons of 
' -H 
ite.' elegance ■and hhe ihiish ’■ 
■■;•<!.';' ‘.:>s •••ai3r|ir wiieei lock weapons. ;• 
gradtmUy 
wl.*i.d 3 t W'^as k&ld by the nvo hands 
cba-'-ie i>.i' t ;)'P -y ifsnj , a na ;-n>- '■ '■ ■ " i 
ol and inlay ’• ..>^^ »■•;. 
wii', b;? notked 
of ihe shook‘l-?i- HyiiLxii-^iUbt as it it .were -a two-handed pistol. The 
si-?;niighiL stocP, to have been adapted to rest on the'd:op 
oi 'Ole .ihA^sMer. Bv ;\n lijcvltabk process of evoiation, the stock was 
k 2 tigthen-.v;:i it:!;d Jimtil it coiiid bear upon the body at a point' which 
eoalikd the e>e to look .along the barrel. Speaking of the soldiers' musket 
in .1590, an English writer says, “^Vere they stocked crooked, to be dis» 
the short 
s'ajck used by the Spaniards. v-' 
The progress pi iirmition was imceasingj and it is perhaps. remarkable' . ' 
; iimt rdmosl nothiiig is .known of the origin-of another great step in. the 
f'i’ogresa of fire'arms, the use of riding, T’^hieJ). appcjiirs to be neasly epn- 
temporaty with the invention of the wbeeJi lock. We do not know who the 
genruri' tir-n tried, to spm .the, 'hell by. means of spiral grooves.- '' 
Ihe ir.i ,i.':i '':■<-•■« ' tnn->*.:r aiii'Miij-Hai to Gasp.ard EoiMer, of yiennaf, 
beio'fc i-S^pK 4fh o.f ^Nvircmburg, in -1520; ‘it Is likely 
eiiotigb, 1 . 1 *'*^ V-.' -. vi:'”*^“er«i.m€oi!Srv. il have had its' origin 
'M tlu hktn i Visdue almost at once foC'. . 
bhh hbtV^ . ^'8 . 
have Been m -r.?? m me most advanced and 
date manne/^'fdf ’Shoofuif: 'rh». game. .' ;-/;r 
The knowledge of rilling .vas '1^ ought to England in due course. The/ 
