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Show Good Marksmen. A Yankee entered a hotel in the Highlands when he overheard a party of gentlemen speaking about shooting. shoot-ing. "Gentlemen," he said, "I guess I have seen some good shooting in my time. I have seen a fly killed on a flagpole at 300 yards." An Irishman, who was one of the party, said: "Begorra, it's party good, but I believe I've seen better. When I was in the army the major used to roll an empty beer barrel down the hill and every time the bunghole turned up we put a bullet in. Any man who couldn't do it was dismissed. I was in that corps for fifteen years and never nev-er saw a man dismissed." |