UNUSUAL SHOTS. 133 



" Any sport to-day, colonel ? " asked a friend, as they were sitting down 

 to dinner. 



" Not much, very bad in fact," replied the warrior. " Still, I met a 

 seal in the estuary on my way back and had three shots at it, a miss 

 each time." 



Shortly afterwards there entered another visitor with a bandage round 

 his head, and his hand in a sling. 



"Hallo, had an accident?" inquired the colonel. 



" Accident ! " replied the other with a vindictive snort ; " attempted 

 murder I call it. I was having a quiet bathe in the estuary, when up 

 came some lunatic of a shooter and fired at me three times." 



The colonel hurriedly turned the conversation to the Japanese War. 



