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Show AS EXUUSH 1.NDESI3Y. Eofiovery of Mtwlics tht Are Fired in Naval Artllteiy Practice. Mr. Sepplnga WrlKbt hascom-ac-. many curious trades aud pi cul ods of earning a living In his rti.l' lugs through all corners of the globe, but the business of shotting be discovered discov-ered at bon.e, for It Is dally pumued under tho eyes of thousands of holiday folks and iaiMlMiieu generally, who neither know nor care what the long-Hlioremen long-Hlioremen are about in their fishing boats a few miles from land. Bui. Ihofe busy workers are engaged upon the business of "shotting," HUd the nature na-ture of this peculiar occupation we will now defCrllie. Ad royal navy men training for tbo rank of seaman gunner have I' undertake a more or lees lengthy leng-thy term of regular practice m firing, ami for those men during their period of training soiuo two or three of the old pattern gunbnnis are sot uMde. These vessels bio connected wjth svery dockyard, und, while obsolete for battle bat-tle purposes, make excellent training ahips. Tney are, of course, fitted wiiii approved modern weapons, and daily dining the season they carry cquad.t of embryo gunuers to the seaward ranucs that lie outside the Splthead forts. The bearing of iheso practice grounds depend de-pend on the particular conjunction of certain objects aMiorc, and the targets are generally plaeed In shoals where a latr range can be commanded fiee of iraftlc. . After u busy mid nol-y period so jiuch solid metal has been blazed away into Hie sea, and It In this metal mat the slioiters set forth to recover when tho gunboats had douo their latk aud return in tbo dockvurd. The ranges and the urea In which the canon bulls must probably lie submerged are, of course, well known to the beurch-or. beurch-or. Armed with experience and a long, Iron-shot pole, they sail over the rangea und probe tho shallow bottom carefully. Familiarity wild ihclr task renders them skilful, nnd an expert known In an lustnut when his pole touches the hidden projectile beneath. The shell found, n pair of huge tongs Is lowered Into the sea, aud It Is galpped nnd carefully fitted aboard. The price of the metal shells Is slight, and rarely exceeds ouu penny ono-haif a p tuud, but the brass studs on the shut pones considerable more value, nnd these are tirually cut out iiiihcU Both Btutls and the main Iron of the recovered shells ate sold to the royal navy, aud the prices olfercd uppt-arsuf-flelitiit to set rrany men at steady work on tho tusk of recovering them. Lou-dun Lou-dun Blaek and White. |