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three each. It was at Chicago in 1868. Soon 

 after I shot with another man two or three 

 times, and won ; but I shall not mention his 

 name in this book, for sufficient reasons. 



The next match I took up with Abraham 

 Kleinman was rather singular in character. It 

 was at single and double birds. I was to shoot 

 from a buggy at twenty-one yards, the horse 

 to be on a trot or run when the trap was 

 pulled. Kleinman shot from the ground at twenty- 

 five yards. I won it. I afterwards shot two 

 other matches on these conditions, one with King 

 at Springfield, and one with Henry Conderman 

 at Decatur. Of these I lost one, and won the 

 other. My shooting from a buggy at plover, 

 grouse, and geese had made me very quick and 

 effective. 



In the spring of 1869 R. M. Patchen made 

 a match, in which I was backed to kill five hun- 

 dred pigeons in six hundred and forty-five min- 

 utes, with one gun, at Chicago. 1 was to load 

 my own gun, and the stakes were 81,000 a side. 

 There were heavy outside bets that I could not 

 do it. I won the match, however, in eight hours 

 forty-eight minutes, and thus had one hour fifty-seven 

 minutes to spare. In the third hundred pigeons 



