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Show 8KIRMI8H LINE AT CREEDMOOR. Inspiring Sight In Advance of 8ham Battle Skirmishers. To thf spectator the skirmish run Is the most Interesting of the matches say Lieut. Frank K. Eans in Out big. Six hundred ard from the tar gets the thin line, of skirmishers awaits tho "Forward, march'" of the bugle Then It avers forward and at the COO yard line halts and drops, With the InHt note of "commence flr Ing" the rltles spatter and crack Then on to the other ranges the line swings, now at quick and now in the cadence of doub'e time, tho men car rylng their pieces In characteristic attitude. At the behest of the buglt the lino drops to the ground anil Dumps out Its leaden night at the tnr gets, The firing grow taster ami more furious, the bugle rings out roel low and clear, and at the short range the line writhes with the quick Hashes of magazine file, and rattling shuttle l of crackling sounds and the whirr ol bullets. Tho craBh and rattle of the ragged volleys lend a realism to thli relentless advanco by picked rlflemer upon the silhouetted figures of th pnper tagets thnt brings, even to th tnnn who knows not tho butt from the muzzlo of a rifle, the old blood-lusl back from tho dl- tomb of nnccstors |