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f The Interesting Story 
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the modem PREST-O-LEI 
D O you recall Robin Hood and his merrie men in 
Lincoln Green? Remember the deer poaching in 
Sherwood Forest? Their weapon was the historic 
Saxon Long Bow—but even this was so much superior 
to the shorter bow of their enemies that it carried the 
day in the battle of Crecy. Here was the first dim light 
of progress in firearms. 
Came then the flint lock and the blunderbus as the 
second important stage in the story of firearms. For 
while the swiftly flying arrow of Robin Hood could be 
avoided, the blunderbus shot lead—invisible, swift, sure. 
And the sportsman of today looks back on these with 
mild and amused toleration. Childlike, indeed, they 
seem in comparison to the modern high powered rifle, 
with its steel jacketed bullet, shooting with an accuracy 
over distances not dreamed of in those days. 
The early fires were those of the Aborigines who 
coaxed their flame with the ancient bow-drill. And the 
needs of fire in those days were many. Tedious and 
tiring was the task which produced the flame that fright¬ 
ened wild animals from the camp and cooked the food 
of those primitive people. 
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