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THE ROBERTS SAFETY LAUNCH AND YACHT BOILER. 
FOREST AND STREAM. 
[ FEB. 10, 1906. 


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Canoe Handling and Sailing. 
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Canoe and Boat Building. 
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This interesting manual of how to build, cruise 
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A Long Shot. 
SoME fourteen miles from Sedalia are two 
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early day, some forty or fifty years ago, Uncle 
settled upon the summit of one. Uncle —— 
is a staid and venerable patriarch, highly re- 
spected, but not given to telling stories, and par- 
ticularly averse to sensational yarns. Not long 
since quite a crowd was gathered in a certain 
store, and the young bloods were telling of their 
great exploits and how they could “lametuem” at 
100 yards with the modern B. L. and No. 10 shot, 
when Uncle cleared his throat—which 
caused all eyes to be turned upon him, for it was 
well known that any incident in his long and 
varied experience must certainly interest the 
present generation—and began: 
“About forty years ago, when I lived on the top 
of the knob, I got up one frosty morning and 
went out on the porch to wash, when I happened 
to look over to the opposite knob, and there stood 
a very large buck on the very top of the knob, his 
broadside to the sun, and at least a half a mile 
from where I stood. I concluded to try him any- 
way, so I went into the house and got down my 
old Kentucky ‘flint-lock, which had seen a good 
deal of service, but which had always proved re- 
liable, and taking a dead rest from the railing 
of the porch, I drew a bead on the top of his 
shoulder and fired.” 
Uncle , resting his chin upon the top of his 
cane, stopped short, and seemed to be in a deep 
study, and from the gravity of his countenance 
it was not unreasonable to suppose that some sad 
reminiscence of the long ago was flitting before 



him, when the reverie was disturbed by the 
modern B. L. champion calling out: ‘Well, 
Uncle , did you kill him?” The reply was 
” 
short and sharp: “No, sir. OcCIDENT. 

An old darky fishing on a warm day had 
caught quite a large catfish, which he laid aside 
on the bank; rebaiting his hook for another 
bite. Not meeting with immediate success he 
presently fell asleep. Another darky came along 
with a much smaller catfish, and observing that 
his brother of the rod. was sound asleep, he 
quietly exchanged fish and wended his way 
stealthily from the scene. When darky No. 1 
awakened, and looked about him for his cat- 
fish, he espied the little one where he had de- 
posited the big fellow, and with horror depicted 
on. his sable countenance exclaimed, “Gor a 
mity! how dat fish am shrunk!” PED: 


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