Fellow hunters stop and stare when Stevens aims his crossbow. 



moat, you stepped into the tower, rescued the princess, and rode 

 away with her on a white charger. 



In order to implement yourself for this adventure, the chances 

 are that as a small boy you spent many hours trying to make a 

 crossbow. You dulled grandfather's chisels and draw knife, anc 

 made your trigger out of a door latch. It simply wouldn't work 

 So you will be glad to know about a man named George Stevens 

 who makes crossbows that really work, and whose bolts, or 

 arrows, really go "blup" when they hit the target. Moreover, it 

 seems more than likely that a new sport is developing around 

 the revival of this weapon of the Middle Ages. 



Not long ago, hunters in the Ozark woods near Marcella, 

 Arkansas, used to come upon George Stevens and his retriever, 

 whose name was Spunky. There were two highly unusual fea- 

 tures about the pair. Spunky was a house cat, and George 

 Stevens' "gun" was a crossbow. 



George's crossbow itself was unusual. It was a five-shot repeat- 



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