Show HE NEVER EVEN TOOK AIM but the tha tyro at hunting brought down two birds and shot no more mora only once in my rn y life did I 1 ever do an shooting 8 said a ill a traveling man talking to a g roup group in the cafe of 0 one tie of the big new neu york hotels rind that once I 1 made a real hit it was in a western estern tonn to which my trip had carried me and the tha natives had arranged a prairie chicken hunt for the following diy daiy of course I 1 nas as emited I 1 protested that I 1 ras out of practice but they the insisted that I 1 go along and some one furnished a sun gun for my use ties As the only st stringer in the party they let me go alit ahad id following the dogs closely I 1 dian didn t een know what nhat it a prairie chicken looked like lather fether thel would run along the blound or fly suddenly I 1 heard it a tremendous whirr the sound as I 1 to know knob of the birds tilting taking v lug 1119 so excited wis w is I 1 hit tatt without raising the gun to nil shoulder I 1 pulled the trigger nans bang went the gun md end tio of the tha birds flutters fluttered flonly to 0 o the ground tie he never cien cen took rim aim shouted one of the hunters and nu my reputation was made thereafter I 1 rested on my laureld not attempting another shot throughout tho day or ever since I 1 |