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send the bullet so near them that they were covered 

 with the spray, at distances of from 500 to 800 yards. 

 As a deer-stalker, too, he was great, but he died while 

 quite a young man, I think in 1864 at any rate, not 

 very long after he had first come into prominence 

 as a rifle-shot. 



Cambridge was at one time a nursery of crack shots. 

 Whether the fact of Edward Ross's being there gave an 

 impetus to rifle-shooting or not I am unprepared to say. 

 But among his contemporaries at Alma Mater were 

 several fine shots, notable among whom were J. H. Doe, 

 of Trinity, and Peterkin, of Emmanuel, who, whilst they 

 were up, made the Chancellor's Plate an annual gift to 

 Cambridge. And then there was Ensign Humphry, son 

 of a popular doctor in the town, who, when a mere lad 

 of seventeen, carried off the Queen's Prize in 1871 with 

 the fine score of 68 out of a possible 84. I recall his 

 smooth, boyish face and slim figure as he went up 

 amid deafening applause to take his big prize. I think 

 Humphry was the youngest marksman that has ever 

 won the Blue Riband of Rifle-shooting, and he sub- 

 sequently maintained his reputation as one of the very 

 best shots of his day. 



But facile princeps amongst Queen's Prizemen for 

 thirty-one years stood Angus Cameron, of Kingussie, the 

 only man who had ever won the Queen's Prize twice 

 until Private Ward, of Devon, rivalled that feat at the 

 last Bisley meeting. And not only did Cameron win it 

 twice, but he won it with the two highest scores ever 

 recorded under the conditions which governed the 

 contest up to 1873. He was but nineteen when in 1866 he 



