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first match with Ira Paine, of New York, for 

 $500 a side. It was a hundred birds each, twen- 

 ty-one yards rise, eighty bounds, half from ground- 

 traps, half from plunge-traps. We shot from the 

 ground-traps first. When we had each shot at 

 seventy birds, I was seven ahead, and night was 

 coming on, so Paine gave it up. At that time 

 he held the champion badge, and exhibited it to us 

 at Detroit; whereupon Doxie told him to make 

 much of it, for that I would go to New York to 

 shoot for it and bring it away. 1 soon after 

 challenged for it, and on the twenty-fifth of 

 January, 1871, we shot for it at the house and 

 grounds formerly kept by Hiram Woodruff, on 

 Long Island. Paine killed eighty-eight birds to 

 my eighty-five, and retained the badge. I used a 

 breech-loader 'in that match. We then agreed to 

 shoot at one hundred birds each, ground-traps, 

 for six consecutive days, the stake each day $500, 

 and either party refusing to go on to the end 

 of the sixth match to forfeit $100. On the first 

 day I killed eighty to Paine's sixty-two, and then 

 he paid forfeit rather than go on; but he backed 

 John Taylor against me at fifteen single birds 

 and ten pairs of double birds, twenty-one yards 

 rise, one ounce of shot. I killed fourteen of the 



