AN ANECDOTE OF FRED KIMBLE 



By Rollin B. Organ 



Low lies the tawny marsh, and lily-pads, 

 All crisped and wrinkled by the Autumn sun, 

 Swing lazily against the sighing reeds, 

 And rudely against the rising sun. 



— McGaffey. 



LL the veterans will remember Fred Kimble, of 

 Peoria, Illinois, who in his day was one of the 

 crack shots of America, both as a duck shot and 

 at the traps. Along with Jim Stice, Charley Budd, L. S. 

 Carter, C. M. Powers, Frank Parmelee and others, he 

 generally got his share of the money at any tournament 

 he attended. I recall an incident that occurred back in 

 the early eighties. 



Fred Kimble and Charley Stock were partners in the 

 manufacturing of what was then known as the Peoria 

 blackbird, of which Kimble was the inventor. Kimble 

 was a very quiet sort of fellow whose only diversion, 

 outside of manking money, was his shotgun. 



As Stock was a gunsmith, Kimble spent much of his 

 spare time in the back room of Stock's shop trying to 



