The captain of the Golden Cross listened patiently to his Yankee ni'senp , r’s account of his shooting abilities, then he quietlv remarked: “I don’t think you could hit this bottle at twenty vnrds, placed on the tailrad. whi’e the ship is moving like this?” “I guess it woidd be "list child’s play.” I’ll bet you a gnim a vou don’t hit ir three times out of'six. ; ‘‘ft’s a wacror! Come along.” The bottle wa.s planed in position. Crack! The Yankee hit it. and it dis.mpeared in fragments in+? the sea. ‘Trot out. another one.” said the marksman. 'Net at all The conditions were that vou hit that cw» three times out of six. Five shots more.” .
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume I, Issue 87, 25 March 1911, Page 2 (Supplement)
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