No one rerally takes me seriously but I really do want some ordinance one day for Christmas. Like these two small field pieces in the Amsterdam City Museum, setting up for a bit of artillery can be a wholesome family activity on a bracing winter morning. What more do you need to give you a spring in yus step than the deep chest feeling of a dissapating shockwave? What gift could more say “titings of comfort and joy” than a canon no longer used in bellicose employ? Naught, says I.

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