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first match with Ira Paine, of New York, for 

 $500 a side. It was a hundred birds each, twen- 

 ty-one yards rise, eighty bounds, half from ground- 

 traps, half from plunge-traps. We shot from the 

 ground-traps first. When we had each shot at 

 seventy birds, I was seven ahead, and night was 

 coming on, so Paine gave it up. At that time 

 he held the champion badge, and exhibited it to us 

 at Detroit, whereupon Doxie told him to make 

 much of it, for that I would go to New York to 

 shoot for it and bring it away. 1 soon after 

 challenged for it, and on the twenty-fifth of 

 January, 1871, we shot for it at the house and 

 grounds formerly kept by Hiram Woodruff, on 

 Long Island. Paine killed eighty-eight birds to 

 my eighty-five, and retained the badge. I used a 

 breech-loader in that match. We then agreed to 

 shoot at one hundred birds each, ground-traps, 

 for six consecutive days, the stake each day $500, 

 and either party refusing to go on to the end 

 of the sixth match to forfeit $100. On the first 

 day I killed eighty to Paine's sixty-two, and then 

 he paid forfeit rather than go on ; but he backed 

 John Taylor against me at fifteen single birds 

 and ten pairs of double birds, twenty-one yards 

 rise, one ounce of shot. 1 killed fourteen of the 



