A Lucky Fluke.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XVLI, Issue 10, 6 September 1911, Page 37

A Lucky Fluke.

A good story is going tin* rounds at Aidershot (says an English contemporary). Quite recently a Captain was mi mercifully (hailed at mess for his waul of skill with tin* rille, so much so that when his brother officers laid live to oik* that Ik* would not hit the target at 2<M> yards. In* covered all their bets. Next morning they accompanied him to the butts, and one of them handed him a rille and he was told to "blaze away.” But 1 here was no target to be seen. ()n remonstrating with his tormentors, who seem cd to be thoroughly enjoying the joke, they told him that there had been no stipulation as to the position of the tar get, and they had had it’ placed edge ways! Although a bad shot, the Captain was a good sportsman, and. seeing there was no getting out of it, he determined to have a run for his money. By a remarkable ‘•fluke,” at the third of t'hl* live shots he was allowed, he hit the edge* of the target, to the immense chagrin of his onlookers, who lost the sum of £l4O between them.