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Show ' SLOW VUWuu.ll UiiUSED. ' M Tliu Menu Trick Tlmt Wnii l'lnrcil on flH ii llinilcr AVIio Wnii nl.llllu flflH ' Olil-rili.hlone.1. Sflflfl When nltro, or, as we call them, BBBB wood powders, were new, there was nn BBIJ old mail came here regular, who would B stick to the old black powder. Ho jH would also always wear a coat with n BBBJ capo in the blind, and when tlicro was flBBJ wind the cape Happed and fluttered und BBIJ kiever a shot would he get; but ho was Bflflj so stubborn and Kel In his ways ho Bflfl would not change it. Well, some of tho Bflflj fellows put up n job on him aliniit Ms Bflflj old "slow ami sure" powder, and after BBflJ a lot-of talk they made a match with Bflflj him that his gnu with black powder bo 'BBBJ tried against one witli wood powder, tflflflflj nnd the uintuh came of, says the New BH York Sun. Bflflj Some one got at the old ninn's shells nnd drew the bhot out of those which flflfl they took good care tdiniild he the ouch to go lu his gun. The old miiu wna' BIB rather deaf, hut would never admit It, Bflfl nud that was where they played the Bflfl trick nn him. The nltro powder mini BBJ fired ut a hheut of while pnper at SO BjBJ yards and mndo a fair pattern, mid BBB then the old man fired and all walked flBfl over to nee what he had done, BflJ There wasn't n mark on his paper, of Bflfl course, nnd nftcr they had twniiiined IKBJ It carefully, suddenly one of the party PKBJ yanked him one Fide while another tired nt the pnper with an air gun H wliich he had hid under his coat, and flKBJ tlius spattered a dozen or en pellets on IJfl the sheet, enough to mark It, mid then flHJ they explained to the flabbergasted old IflJ man Hint his powder was so denied IIJ slow It had only just reached the target, - and but for them hearing it coming anil flflj dragged him one side he would havo llfl been tilled up with it. He went away, Jfl I nnd never cainc to the bench again. flflfl - ... , ' f i r'l . , ViB |