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much pleasure can be obtained by using less expensive out- 
fits. Bows and arrows can be purchased at a very reason- 
able figure, or they can be made at home if one is clever. 
Bamboo can be utilized in this case. 
The target may be made of twisted straw, covered with 
thin canvas or even paper, on which a bull’s eye is painted. 
Archery tournaments may be held in one’s own yard, but 
one thing the invited guests or onlookers must remember 
is to get out of range of erratic marksmanship. 
This sport to prove beneficial, like all other exercises, 
must be kept up, and practiced regularly to obtain good re- 
sults. [here is no tonic in the world like out-of-door life, 
and this combined with healthful exercise, soon shows in 
rosy cheeks and fine physique. 
This sport in the United States has not in the past been 
nearly so popular as it should have been, considering the ad- 
vantages which have been attained from it, and it has not 
been carried to the same degree of perfection as in Eng- 
land. In 1879 the National Archery Association of the 
United States was formed, and holds contests annually, the 
same regulations being employed as those used by the Eng- 
lish’ National Association. [he targets are fixed exactly 
opposite each other at sixty yards, or more, when a longer 
distance is to be covered. 
The proper number of arrows called for by the regula- 
tions are shot from each end (row of targets on their 
stands) by all the party assembled. When this has been 
done all pick up or extract their arrows, the marker scoring 
for each before they are drawn from the target. After this 
has been done, the arrows are shot back to the other end, 
and so on until the whole number of ends have been shot. 
The word end is also used to signify the number of shots 
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fired consecutively from one spot. For instance, if a 
shooter lets go three arrows, one following the other, it 
is called an end. 
In the English field regulations, which could be followed 
if one wished to enjoy an amateur tournament, the rules 
are—shooting to be in the order in which the names are 
entered on the target list, any one not ready when called 
being obliged to shoot last. 
No one is allowed to shoot out of his turn. No arrow to 
be withdrawn from the target until it has been scored by the 
captain, or it will lose its value. No talking is allowed at 
the ends while the shooting is going on, and only those 
shooting are allowed in front of the target. All arrows 
must be clearly marked in different colors, the colors chosen 
by each person being entered on the books. 
The interest shown among the people of England is no 
doubt increased by its historic associations, and by the fa- 
mous victories which have been won by their ancestors, but 
as a sport pure and simple, combining exercise which is ben- 
eficial for young and old alike, it should be taken up by the 
people of America, and made as popular as tennis, golf, 
swimming and others too numerous to mention. 
In the cultivation of archery in its various fields; that of 
battle, outlawry, chase, games and sport as practised on the 
sanguinary plain, in Sherwood Forest, in the hunter’s pre- 
serve, at Olympic Games, or in lawn tournaments, the 
range of its phases even as we have given it, is hardly com- 
plete, for one realizes that in the refinements of the art as 
incidentally pictured in our illustrations and in the play of 
garden parties where the sturdy archer and the fair archer- 
ess enter into the glory and the pleasure of sterling compe- 
tition, they enjoy a recreation, which is that of ‘Pastime.’ 
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Archery affords a delightful twentieth century pastime in contrast to its employment in Robin Hood day 
