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Show STORY OF "TOM" OCHILTREE. Gallant Colonel Had Science or 8hootlng Down Fine. Col. "Tom" Ochiltree was onco Invited In-vited to spond a week at tho doer hunting lodgo In the Malno woods of one of hla frionds, and tramped th wilds for a week without bringing: down anything. On the last day ot his visit ho was approaching the lodgo In company with hla entortalner just as dusk, and seeing somothloc in the thicket, fired at It. It turned out to be a calf, but the Honorable-Tom Honorable-Tom missed It as gallantly as if it had bcon a buck of many antlers. "What's this," shouted his host, "you protend-to protend-to be a hunter and can't hit a calft" "Well," Tom replied, "I wasn't just sure what it was, go I shot to hit it it it was a doer and miss It If It was & calf." |