DID THE AUDIENCE KICK ?

Pelorus Guardian and Miners' Advocate., Volume 22, Issue 29, 14 April 1911, Page 5

DID THE AUDIENCE KICK ?

“That thar gun, kicks like the blazes !” Thus the old huntsman to his group of youthful satellites, eager for stories. “Bless yer, that gun kicks s 0 much it can’t be handled by any but a modem Samson !” “And used you to use it 7“ gasped a boy in a sailor-suit. “I used,” assented the old huntsman. “And when I got used to it, then I could manage it all right. But it’s a good thing the first time I ever took it out I couldn’t. The grizzly bear was upon me, chargin’ like a battalion. I raised me gun, missed him, an’ on he came. /■ nd if it hadn’t been that the gun h-vl kicked me so far back that I h :.:1 time to reload, I shouldn’t have Loan here to tell the story !”