[Illustration: No. VI. _Cease Firing._] [Illustration: No. VII. _Retreat._] [Illustration: No. VIII. _Assembly._] [Illustration: No. IX. _Incline to the Right._] [Illustration: No. X. _Incline to the Left._] [Illustration: No. XI. _The Alarm._] [Illustration: _The Quick Time._] [Illustration: _The Double Time._] Footnote 16: With the bugle, the “right incline,” or “left incline,” sounded _once_, is understood to mean _the half turn, twice_ (with a well-marked interval) _the full turn_. A METHOD OF INSTRUCTION FOR THE SPEEDY ACQUIREMENT OF PROFICIENCY IN THE USE OF THE LONG RANGE RIFLE. _The recruit or pupil must_ FIRST _have his intelligence distinctly informed, and his memory strongly impressed, with what the Rifle can be made to do at any given distance_. He will thus be prepared for instruction, SECONDLY, in the art of making it do what it can do. The _first_ particular may perhaps be accomplished to full satisfaction by the following method. The trials that now induce the proposal of it,[17] were, with the regulation musquet, very satisfactory. The various degrees of the power of the weapon were, to the extent the experiment was carried, accurately ascertained and distinctly exhibited. A piece of level ground must be set apart for rifle practice. The length, with the present power of range, should be from 1400 to 1500 yards. Forty feet would be sufficient for the width, excepting at the permanent butt, where, for security’s sake, it should be at least forty yards. It would be very desirable that no boundary straight walls or fences should guide the eye to the target. At the permanent butt, a racket court wall should be built, from thirty to forty feet high, and from thirty to forty yards wide, with side-wings, to stop glancing shot. Ten yards in front of this centre should stand a wooden target, painted white if the wall be painted black, or _vice versâ_; with a “bull’s-eye” at four and a half feet from the ground—this target being divided into square feet by lines, easily distinguishable through a small telescope from the furthest extremity of the range. From this wooden target, as a commencement, the practice ground should be marked off into lengths of fifty yards each. At each of these fifty-yard stations, two sockets should be sunk into the ground, to hold, when required, the _outer frame_ of an intermediate target. The _inner frame_ should hang by hinges on the outer, so as to open and shut as a door. It should be covered with the most yielding material (paper or otherwise), that would stand with an ordinary wind, so as to offer the least possible resistance to a passing bullet.