Show how men fill when shot nearly every adne la familiar with the stage fall where the victim of a supposed death shot strikes an attitude clasps big hand to his heart stiffens every Joint and muscle breathes hysterically and goes down like a log over from the end another popular yet erroneous notion Is that men shot through the vitala leap into the air and go down in a dramatic attitude sometimes men arc found on the field in striking positions but often an e shows that the position was taken after the fall As a rule a man who Is hit above the hips sinks down the slighter the wound the more commotion for the body instinctively just as it does when one slips or is pushed or collides with some object but a wound in a vital spot weakens the resistance and men sink at once or reel and tumble with very self control |