122 FRANK FORESTER’S FIELD SPORTS. 
ship to him, as he will certainly be promptly and properly 
served. 
I have tried metallic wadding for common fowlingpieces, and 
think well of it, not having found it liable to the objection gene¬ 
rally brought against it, that it scratches the interior of the bai- 
rel, which I believe to be impossible. Its advantages are, its 
small bulk, its portability, and its non-liability to become wet. 
Any cut wadding, made of pasteboard, free from glue or paste, 
is however as good as anything can be. For all shooting, but 
most of all, for sea-fowl shooting, Starkey’s central fire caps, at 
five dollars the thousand, are the best copper caps, by a thou¬ 
sand to one, that are made. No degree of dampness or wet 
will prevent their instant ignition, and discharging their whole 
fire into the tube of the nipple, they do not corrode the exterior, 
and are the cleanest, quickest, and strongest implements of igni¬ 
tion I have ever tested. Despite the price, I use no others. 
