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company urged me to shoot at the remaining 

 thirty potatoes, to see how many I could hit 

 out of the hundred. So, just to show what I 

 could do, I shot two at a time, taking them in 

 my left hand, and throwing them up in the 

 air myself. I hit them all, fifteen double 

 shots, so that altogether I hit ninety-eight 

 potatoes out of a hundred, and as one barrel 

 had no charge in it, I might possibly have hit 

 ninety-nine out of a hundred." 



The landlord. Stains, and Sanders, and 

 Pryor offered to back me to shoot the ninety- 

 nine out of a hundred, for five pounds, and 

 Sanders produced a five pound note, but 

 Warner said: — "No, sir, I wouldn't lay 

 against him if you offered to back him to hit 

 every potato out of a level hundred." 



Just before we dispersed an Exciseman came 

 up, and took down our names in his pocket 

 book. An account of my shooting somehow 

 found its way into an American paper, and 

 Mr. Henry Wilson, of Stowlangtoft Hall, near 

 Bury St. Edmunds, who happened to be in 

 America at the time, saw the paper, and 



