UNUSUAL SHOTS. 133 
‘“‘ Any sport to-day, colonel?” asked a friend, as they were sitting down 
to dinner. 
‘“Not much, very bad in fact,’’ replied the warrior. “Still, I met a 
seal in the estuary on my way back and had three shots at it, a miss 
each time.” 
Shortly afterwards there entered another visitor with a bandage round 
his head, and his hand in a sling. 
“Hallo, had an accident?” inquired the colonel. 
“Accident!” replied the other with a vindictive snort; “attempted 
murder I call it. I was having a quiet bathe in the estuary, when up 
came some lunatic of a shooter and fired at me three times.” 
The colonel hurriedly turned the conversation to the Japanese War. 
