appearance like her might be made for 6 pounds; and, after all, for gunning, not worth 6 shillings!

Having stated the foregoing improvements, the plate from Varley's drawing might be a sufficient guide for this punt, as well as for the original one: but in order to have the improvement still better understood, I here present my readers with a wood-cut, after a perfect model, that I had made expressly for the purpose of being drawn from; and, in order to see it properly done, as well as that for the single-gun-punt, I went 100 miles and back, accompanied by an excellent modeller.

N. B. This last new punt is what I recommend as perfection. But I shall still retain the old steel engraving in order to show the appendages. For improved mooring covers, see the frontispiece.

Commencement of a Cripple-Chase, after firing 2 Mes of Shot into a Shein of Brent Gorse & Two Wild Surons.

As my new plan for copper thowls may not be quite understood, I here give a sketch of one, in order to show how it must be screwed on to the deck; with a piece of elm under, to strengthen the part where the strain comes in pulling. I have drawn the thowl muffled with whit-leather, as used

when gunning; and I will now conclude with a waterbird's-eye view of the punt "end on.”

Never use a punt which is too narrow or too upright in the sides. Beware also of flat decks,-they occasion miserably "wet boats," in every little breeze; and in very hard weather, the water freezes on them before it will run off, and forms a mass of ice that makes your punt so heavy as to have no life in a sea, and therefore liable to fill and sink.

The method of shooting wildfowl which I have last described is the best calculated for the amusement of a gentleman, as he may go out between breakfast and dinner; and in frosty weather, perhaps kill his twenty or thirty couple in a day, followed by his companions, who may keep at a distance, to enjoy a sight of the sport, and afterwards join in the "cripple chase." [Vide plate.]