ZIGZAG RIFLE SHOOTING. 



My proficiency in billiard playing aided me wonderfully in mastering 

 the art of rifle shooting, said the quiet man, Mr. Frank Cheney, of 

 Toledo. Not the mere rudiments of the art, as in simply hitting the 

 bull's-eye at a reasonable distance, but in making caroms, so to speak. I 

 deem it very easy for any man with steady nerves and a clear eye 

 to make a straight score with a rifle at a thousand yards 

 distance, and therefore I determined to be the originator 

 of a new phase of rifle practice. 



Beginning by the simple practice of "bark- 

 ing" squirrels, I gradually developed in skill until 

 I could hit a ten cent piece a hundred yards distant 

 — not aiming at the mark, but at a hardwood 

 tree situated at right angles to the target. The bullet woulSf" 

 glance from this to the edge of another tree and so on, in a 

 semi-circle, until it reached the desired point. Perhaps the 

 most difficult feat is to make the bullet take a zigzag course, 

 first to the right, and then to the left, with a flight as irregu- 

 lar as a rail fence. To show you what may be done in this 

 way, I will merely say that I once killed ten blackbirds at one rifle shot, 

 the birds being diagonally opposite, on both sides of a wood road 

 through the forest, and so accurate was my aim and estimate that with 

 the small 22 caliber rifle bullet the plumage was not touched, the eyes 

 only being shot out. 



THE LAST BUFFALO HUNT. 



Mr. John Jenkins, of Kansas City, who had been softly playing a 

 Harvard guitar, and listening to the stories, put in his lingual oar at this 

 juncture. Some ten years ago important business took me to the North- 

 west, where I remained several months, and devoted my leisure time to 

 field sports. Buffalo were then abundant, and on several occasions I had 

 good sport in their pursuit. Finally I decided upon an original plan, 

 principally for the sake of novelty, and at once put it into execution. 

 Taking the entire skin of a freshly-killed buffalo, with the head and horns 

 complete, I prepared a framework in the department of the interior within 



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