BULLETS AND THEIR BILLETS 



into the cabin he drew out a battered 

 Winchester, squatted behind a stump 

 whereon he rested his rifle, elevated the 

 muzzle far beyond the range of the 

 sights, and fired. Through the clear 

 morning air they saw a great splash, and 

 the speck disappeared from sight. It 

 took two pairs of sturdy arms nearly 

 twenty minutes to reach the place where 

 a moose lay dead at the water's edge 

 with a bullet through his heart, and a 

 little later they went their way with as 

 much tough steak as they cared to carry. 

 Neither you nor I saw the shot, but 

 then we never saw a drive from the tee 

 find the hole three hundred yards away, 

 and both things, if unlikely, are still 

 conceivable. 



A third of this distance is probably 

 the usual limit of effective shooting ; in- 

 deed it is seldom decent or sportsman- 

 like to pull trigger at such a range, for 

 you can but hope to cripple a beast that 



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