Salt Lake Herald | 1895-02-24 | Page 8 | Napoleon a Bad Shot

NAPOLEON A BAD SHOT Apropos of the Great Napoleon it may be remarked that he was as poor a marksman as the average woman It is related that on a certain occasion I he was hunting when the dogs brought a fine stag to bay It was the custom to leave it for the emperor to kill but at that moment he could not kl found so the master of the staghounds stag-hounds put the animal out of its misery with a knife Just then the emperor came In sight and tne I dead stag was propped up on its legs The great Napoleon fred and the stag fell over at the same time there was a j piteous whine from one of the hounds I which had been shot through the head The emperor who was on horseback I wheeled around and said to Poacher Apres tout je ne suis pas aussl I manvais tireur quon le pretendl I After all I am not so bad a shot as II they make me out to bei Truth