Aug. 4, 1906.] 
FOREST AND STREAM. 
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Jack is a good sort of a fellow, but is “given” 
to telling fish and snake stories sometimes. We 
were down at Smith’s grocery one evening roost¬ 
ing around on the barrels and boxes. The wind 
was blowing and the snow drifting outside at a 
fearful rate, and Jack was drawing on his 
imagination and telling us about how many 
charges of shot he used in trying to kill a cat, 
when Bill Y., an old frontiersman and miner, ex¬ 
tricated himself from the cracker barrel, sliced 
off a piece of cheese and exclaimed: 
“Talk about tenacity of life and hard critters 
to kill, you oughter seen some shootin’ that I did 
once!” 
Jack opened his eyes and invited Bill to go 
ahead and give us the benefit of his experience. 
Expecting a story about a grizzly or some other 
“varmint” we hitched around and were all at¬ 
tention. 
“Well,” said Bill, “It was out in the Black 
Hills. I had been down to Cheyenne and bought 
a new Winchester. I wanted to try it on some¬ 
thing to see how she would carry, so I went out 
back of the camp, and the first thing I set eyes 
on was old Ike Irving’s horse. I thought that 
would be a good thing to practice on, so I drew 
a bead right square between its eyes and pulled. 
I saw the critter kinder jump a little as the bullet 
struck, but it did not tumble, so I unhitched 
again. I saw where the second bullet struck— 
right between the eyes—but the eyes kept staring 
at me just the same as before, so (helping him¬ 
self to a handful of loose muscatels) I fired again 
and again, until I had emptied the magazine, and 
every bullet struck between its eyes, and that 
air horse stood there just as well as ever.” 
“Now Bill!” exclaimed Jack, “that’s too thin 
altogether. How far away were you from that 
horse ?” 
“About forty yards.” 
“And you—you fired seventeen .44 caliber bul¬ 
lets in between his eyes and didn’t knock him off 
his feet?” 
“Yes,” responded Bill, sidling toward the door, 
“you see old Ike was a carpenter, the two I’s 
were capitals (old Ike’s initials), the horse was 
a sawhorse, and—” 
Bill had just time to get outside the door when 
a starch box crashed against it and flew into 
kindling wood. But Jack called him back again, 
and in a few minutes the store was blue with 
the smoke of Smith’s best Havanas. 
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