. The American sportsman: containing hints to sportsmen, notes on shooting, and the habits of the game birds and wild fowl of America . t is not sufficiently warm. Nothing but wool will do forthis purpose,—to preserve which, in the summer season, from theannoying attacks of the moths, is no small affair; however, wewill try to put our readers in a way effectually to defy the effortsof these little torments. A bag sufficiently large to hold all the woollen shooting-clothes 25 386 LEWIS S AMERICAN SPORTSMAN. should be made of strong linen, and, before putting the clothing init, it should be wrun
. The American sportsman: containing hints to sportsmen, notes on shooting, and the habits of the game birds and wild fowl of America . t is not sufficiently warm. Nothing but wool will do forthis purpose,—to preserve which, in the summer season, from theannoying attacks of the moths, is no small affair; however, wewill try to put our readers in a way effectually to defy the effortsof these little torments. A bag sufficiently large to hold all the woollen shooting-clothes 25 386 LEWIS S AMERICAN SPORTSMAN. should be made of strong linen, and, before putting the clothing init, it should be wrung out of turpentine and hung up to dry. Theclothes, after being well beaten and brushed, are put into this bagwith pieces of camphor distributed in the pockets. The bag isthen scAVcd up and put away in some dark hole, and not openeduntil the retui-n of the ducking-season, when all will be found this precaution, a whole suit will be riddled by these vora-cious little torments in the course of one summer. Fustian, asbefore said, being manufactured entirely of cotton, is, of course,not liable to the attacks of IMPORTANCE OF CLEAN GUNS. Sportsmen cannot be too particular in cleaning their guns, so asto prevent the accumulation of any thing like rust. It would seemalmost absurd for us to advise our readers never to put their armsaway without washing them out thoroughly and rubbing them per-fectly dry with a good supply of that very essential article vulgarlytermed elbow-grease. Nevertheless, this recommendation is anecessary precaution, as we were informed, a few days since, thatone of our oldest and most experienced sporting friends is in thehabit of laying his gun by at the conclusion of each shooting-season without even so much as swabbing it out; and, to make thematter still worse, he strongly recommends and insists upon this MISCELLANEOUS HINTS. 387 course as the proper plan to prevent the engendering of or not he also advised the standing o
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