Pant: shooting was la vogue when Col. Hawker followed the geese and ducks in their flight on the coast of England. The Hampshire punt was made s0 light and narrow as jast to hold one person with " gan of about seventy pounds weight and six feet in barrel, fixed on a swivel. In a punt thus armed the shooter noiselessly sculls towards the unsuspecting tick of geese or docks and sends among them at death speed more than " pound of big shot. There was soother style of pant, known as the mad pant, which the shooter would launch on the oozes, and dressed in waterproof clothes would lie flat ea his stomach
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