BOAT SHOOTING, UNDER SAIL, outside of Harbour Caution how to avoid the Accidents that too frequently happen Boats used in the Southampton River, and elsewhere. General Directions in using the Hut for each sort of Wild- Anecdote to prove the Superiority of the French Ducks, as SHOOTING WILDFOWL ON VIRGINIA WATER New Directions for Preserving and Painting them MEANS OF CONVEYING PUNTS, &c. OVER LAND How to provide for himself at the last stage on his route, ters How to cater, and make palatable Bad Provisions How to fare tolerably, while a bad Caterer would be starved What few Medicines to make choice of, as being most useful List of the very few Articles that he could take in his Port- manteau, with which he or his Servant might have the means of making a tolerable dish out of the most humble GAME ACT WHICH CAME INTO OPERATION ON THE 1st NOVEMBER, 1831. Short epitome of old nonsensical Statutes repealed.. 503 to 505 Sketch of the old Statutes which still remain in force, &c. . 505 Increased Penalty for Trespassers, when five, or more, are Time for prosecutions for penalties, &c. No evasion, for want of form, to be allowed GUNS AND GUNMAKERS. THE great demand for this work having exhausted the fifth and sixth editions in so short a space of time, I was resolved that the printer's devil and I should have absolution from sporting subjects for at least a few years, and therefore inflicted on my publishers treble doses of copies; or, seriously speaking, I gave very large impressions of the seventh, eighth, and also ninth editions. About four years and a half had elapsed since the first was in the press, when there took place among the gunmakers a complete revolution. Poor Joe Manton-the life and soul of the trade - died, and was buried in the cemetery at Kensal Green. Several epitaphs to his memory were prepared at the request of his family and sporting friends. The one chosen was that which I wrote, and it shall be here inserted—not as an essay with pretensions to merit, but a memorial of justice to departed talent: "In memory of Mr. Joseph Manton, who died, universally regretted, on the 29th day of June, 1835, age 69. This humble tablet is placed here by his afflicted family, merely to mark where are deposited his mortal remains. But an everlasting monument to his unrivalled genius is already established in every quarter of the globe, by his celebrity as B |