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For at the earliest dawn I go to pick, and not till dusk return; Till the deep midnight I'm still before the firing-pan. Will not labor like this my pearly complexion deface? "But if my face is lank, my mind is firmly fixed So to fire my golden buds they shall excel all beside. But how know I who'll put them into the gemmy cup?
Frederick, or some one of his time, the name marks the period, replaced wooden by cylindrical iron ramrods. To prime more quickly a conical funnel allowed the powder to pass from the barrel into the firing-pan. These two last improvements saved time in two ways, in priming and in loading. But it was the adoption of the breech-loader that brought the greatest increase in rapidity of fire.
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