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jumper and smiled. The Colonel fancied the 
bet already won. If only one of his men could 
stick on he would win. 
The cowboys were eager to begin. The first 
man walked boldly up to the horse, and Brody’s 
buckjumper awaited him patiently. He had no 
sooner touched the saddle than he felt himself 
hurled into space and landed in Colonel Selby’s 
arms. 
"Try another,” said Brody. 
Number two was ‘ allowed to mount. He 
shared the fate of number one. Three other 
cowboys were made to “see stars,” and then 
Texas Bill, with a smile on his face, said, “I’ll 
settle him.” 
“Try,” said Brody. 
Texas Bill was a genuine cowboy. He sat 
out the first shock and the second, but at the 
third attempt he turned a double somersault and 
landed in the reserved seats. Then the applause 
burst forth and Selby’s Wild West Show became 
a pandemonium of noise. 
“It’s a swindle,” said Colonel Selby; “you 
can’t ride that ’oss yourself.” 
Jim Brody gave no reply, but mounting his 
horse rode him quietly round the inclosure. The 
settling took place next morning. Colonel Selby 
paid his fifty like a man and offered fifty more 
for Brody’s horse. Hasty Jim, however, de¬ 
clined to be tempted, and the bay horse can still 
be seen at Barraba where he will live and die 
as “Brody’s buckjumper.” — Sporting and Dra¬ 
matic News. 
THE RIFLE ON WILDFOWL. 
In broaching the idea of shooting wildfowl 
in this country with the rifle, one is treading 
on very delicate ground, says Fleur-de-Lys in 
the Scottish Field. In fact, the use of a rifle 
at all for shore shooting is anathema to most 
wildfowlers. In spite, however, of old preju¬ 
dices, the fact remains that the intelligent use 
of a suitable rifle in the pursuit of shore birds 
affords interesting and distinctly high class 
sport. 
The long ranges 
make the ordinary 
which are the general rule, 
rook and rabbit rifle with 
open sights worse than useless. The rifle re¬ 
quired is something quite different. It must be 
small in bore, so as not unnecessarily to mangle 
the game; it must possess perfect accuracy up 
to 200 yards and lastly, the trajectory must be 
moderately flat, so as to allow of a reasonable 
percentage of error in judging the range. The 
above requirements are necessarily difficult to 
find in rifles of British design, but as the sport 
of shooting small animals and birds at long 
range has long been followed in America, there 
are plenty of weapons made in that country 
which take suitable ammunition for the purpose 
in hand. 
Of course no intelligent sportsman would 
dream of using one of the high power military 
type rifles on account of the enormous range 
of their projectiles. 
The .32-40-165, .28-30-120, .25-25-86. .25-21-86 
and the .25-20-86 are examples of thoroughly 
suitable rifles for wildfowl shooting. All are 
capable of extreme accuracy up to the longest 
distances likely to be required, while the bullets 
do not leave the muzzle with such energy as to 
be a source of danger when the rifle is in the 
hands of an intelligent person. 
A rifle intended for accurate work at ranges 
varying from 100 to nearly 200 yards must be 
provided either with telescopic sights or with 
a peep rear and fine pinhead foresight, such as 
are used for target shooting. It is also very 
necessary to have a wind gauge arrangement in 
rear to make the necessary allowance when a 
breeze is blowing across the line of fire. Fur¬ 
ther, it should be noted a scale of allowance for 
various strengths of wind must be carefully 
worked out to suit the ammunition used. 
It is scarcely necessary to r.oint out that the 
sportsman must be a thoroughly steady shot, a 
good judge of distance and a fairly useful 
stalker in order to bag the wilder and more 
desirable fowl. 
Graticules drawn across the field, of a pocket 
telescope are of considerable help in estimating 
