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FOREST AND STREAM. 
[Feb. 2, 1907. 
MARK TWAIN’S “DUEL.” 
At four we went down into a little gorge, about 
a mile from town, and borrowed a barn door for 
a mark—borrowed it of a man who was over in 
California on a visit—and we set the barn door 
up and stood a fence-rail up against the middle 
of it, to represent Mr.’ Laird. But the rail was 
no proper representative of him, for he was 
longer than a rail and thinner. Nothing would 
ever fetch him but a line shot, and then as like 
as not he would split the bullet—the worst ma¬ 
terial for duelling purposes that could be 
imagined. I began on the rail. I couldn’t hit 
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