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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 268

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t drill practice areactually represented by a harmless bag of beans. The pointers and trainers are drilled even inport with actual firing. The miniature target isingeniously rigged on a spar a few feet away, tomove with the gun, and presents itself whicheverway the gun is trained. The firing is… … From photograph by Brown.A TARGET UNDER A STRANGE LIGHT. the roar of its big brother. Effective prelimi-nary training is thus secured and a great savingeffected, for the ammunition to fire a twelve-inchgun costs $360, and the gun generally requires

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