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single birds; Mr. Taylor killed nine. 1 shot at 

 eight pairs of double birds, and killed twelve- 

 he at nine pairs, and killed ten, and then gave 

 up. 



On that same visit to New York 1 was backed 

 to kill forty-five out of fifty, with leave to place 

 the trap as 1 pleased. The arrangement of the 

 trap was objected to by Mr. Robinson's umpire, 

 because it was so contrived that it would open 

 towards the shooter first. The referee decided 

 that the trap could not be so placed, and I 

 turned the trap and missed six out of ten, 

 and lost. Thereupon Mr. De Forrest offered to 

 bet $250 that 1 could not kill forty -five out of 

 fifty, and fix the trap my own way. It was not 

 a bad bet on his part, for the difference in the 

 mode of fixing the ground-trap is not a great 

 advantage to the shooter, and Mr. Eobinson had 

 brought clipping-birds for me to shoot at. How- 

 ever, I scored forty-six, and won. 



At Lincoln, Illinois, I shot against Abraham 

 Kleinman at one hundred birds each, one ounce 

 of shot, and each of us killed eighty-eight. We 

 had not birds there to shoot the tie off, so we 

 adjourned to meet at Chicago, where he killed 

 ninety-one and I killed ninety, losing by one bird. 



