Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 July 1899 — Cannon Made of Leather. [ARTICLE]

Cannon Made of Leather.

According to one motto raft, oininfln were built of the most iharQtmefl lleaflher, girt about with ihoqpn tff item umfl brass, the bonur tff drawing itanOßt this make being a mattor utf iflHQittte Between Sweden and Scotland. According to another, they bad a (core off tfln, and were bound iround with cmrflage. In neither case eotild tifatw the iexpected to last Jang, though weaaetbM that they could be ‘brought tto charge” as often as ten times tin succession; but when we .reflect ihow Hew are the rounds that can be tfired tfirom the monster their life. T»*y were, mate, an»bile, for they could be M .on «