. Complete wildfowler . LEVERING UP THE PUNT CARRIAGE. PREPARING TO LAUNCH PUNT CARRIAGES, WAGONS, AND HOUSES 221 punt and expediently mount the latter on it. In launching,the roller serves as a **run off without excessive friction orscraping on the punts bottom. A punt carriage should alwaysbe built twice as strong as thought necessary. Then it willstand rough usage—a thing it is unavoidably bound to mounting in a punt carriage is a bad thing. The puntis hard to get on, and when mounted and going the leastobstruction under the wheels will shoot the punt forward andoff its carriage.

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. Complete wildfowler . LEVERING UP THE PUNT CARRIAGE. PREPARING TO LAUNCH PUNT CARRIAGES, WAGONS, AND HOUSES 221 punt and expediently mount the latter on it. In launching,the roller serves as a **run off without excessive friction orscraping on the punts bottom. A punt carriage should alwaysbe built twice as strong as thought necessary. Then it willstand rough usage—a thing it is unavoidably bound to mounting in a punt carriage is a bad thing. The puntis hard to get on, and when mounted and going the leastobstruction under the wheels will shoot the punt forward andoff its carriage. Set the carriage as low as the nature of theground usually to be travelled over will permit. With thelowest setting, the line of traction—or, in other words, a linedrawn parallel to the ground at the height of the axle-pins—will seldom cut above half the loaded weight. Avoid carryinga punt in a lever-lifting boat carriage. This kind of vehicle isa pair of wheels with an arched axle, to which the boat isslung and lifted by means of a lever. They

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