PRETTY TALL SHOOTING.
A YANKEE officer was bragging about the crack shots in his corps. ‘Oh, that’s nothin’to the way we shoot,’ said another. ‘ I belonged to a company of a hundred men, and every week we used to go out to practice. The cap’n would draw us up in single file, and set a cider barrel rollin’ down hill. Each man took a shot at the bung-hole as it turned up. The barrel was then examined, and if there was a shot found that didn’t go into the bung-hole, the man that fired it was expelled. I’ve belonged to the company ten years, and there ain't been nobody expelled yet.’
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New Zealand Graphic, Volume VI, Issue 35, 30 August 1890, Page 20
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111PRETTY TALL SHOOTING. New Zealand Graphic, Volume VI, Issue 35, 30 August 1890, Page 20
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