Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 543
e given thirty seconds in which to fire fiveshots. In rapid fire you have twenty secondsin which to fire five shots, and for every car-tridge of the five not fired five is subtractedfrom your score. The target is a black life-sized figure of a man kneeling ; it pops up frombehind the butts, stays… … BEHIND THE BUTTS. A C.VDET MARK- ING A TARGET. one must be equipped in heavy marching or-der, i.e., with blanket-roll, haversack and can-teen, besides rifle and ammunition. As yourun down the plain, stopping now and then tofire at those black figures, way down at theother end, it is easy to imagine…
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