A PIGEON HUNT ON THE OHIO. 17 



To their surprise for most of them being crack-shots, 

 and several of us not at all so they could not compre- 

 hend why they were every day beaten so outrageously. 

 We had hundreds to spare, and barrels of them were 

 cured for winter use. It was not until the colonel's 

 reunion was about to break up, that our secret was let 

 out, to the no small chagrin of our opponents, but to the 

 infinite amusement of our host himself, who, although 

 one of the defeated party, often narrates to his friends 

 the story of the "Hunt with the Howitzer." 



