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Show Try This. The captain of tlie S. .S. Piffle listened patiently to a passenger's account of his shooting abilities, then he quietly remarked: re-marked: "T don't think you could lilt this bottle bot-tle at twenty yards, placed oh the taff-rail, taff-rail, while the ship is heaving like this." "It would be only child's piay," said the passenger. - i "Well. I'll bet you a guinea you don't hit it three times out of six." "It's a wacr. Come along." The bottle was placed in position. Crack! The passenger hit it and it disappeared dis-appeared in fragments into the sea. "Trot out another one," said the marksman. "Not at all. Tho conditions were that you hit that one three times out of six. Five shots more." Chicago News. |