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friends and ourselves, forty-five yards 

 were agreed upon. The ground was duly 

 measured from a certain tree, against 

 which was nailed a quire of the before- 

 mentioned whited-brown paper. 



Monsieur Hubert commenced opera- 

 tions, and lodged twenty-nine shot in the 

 paper, but not half of the quire was per- 

 forated. Another quire was nailed up, 



when Monsieur G- took his shot ; 



twenty-three grains struck the sheet, but 

 did not penetrate through more than 

 eight or nine sheets of the paper. Mon- 

 sieur de N then took his ground as 



soon as Monsieur Lepage had placed a 

 fresh quire before him. He fired, and 

 lodged thirty-two shots in the target, but 

 still many sheets of the quire were un- 

 touched. I was now confident that they 

 had no chance against us. We fired in 

 the following order, changing the quire 

 at every shot. 



