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ornamented by silver and ivory inlaying. The third rifle has the stock wholly of buck-horn, and doubtless was so constructed by way of novelty. It, as well as the two preceding, is of Saxon make. Saxon pistols, too, of same date and style, are in the Museum; the stock of one, some 18 inches in length, being carved from one horn, and without a join—a rare sample of man's ingenuity. It would be tedious to enumerate the various materials of which gun-stocks have been constructed. Woods of almost every known kind, steel, iron, copper, silver, whalebone, ivory, leather, paper,