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Lilburne stood aghast. "That's wonderful!" said Marsden; "quite wonderful. Where the devil did you get such a knack? for it is only knack after all!" "I lived for many years in a country where the practice was constant, where all that belongs to rifle-shooting was a necessary accomplishment a country in which man had often to contend against the wild beast.
Lilburne stood aghast. "That's wonderful!" said Marsden; "quite wonderful. Where the devil did you get such a knack? for it is only knack after all!" "I lived for many years in a country where the practice was constant, where all that belongs to rifle-shooting was a necessary accomplishment a country in which man had often to contend against the wild beast.
About the end of May, there was to be, in a village not far distant, a match at rifle-shooting. It was a public fete, at which all the people in the neighborhood assembled. On the morning of this day, Mark had answered his father with great insolence, at which he was so much enraged, that he punished him severely, and forbad him, besides, to go to the fete.
And now I came to the land of wooden houses, innocent cakes, thin butter soup, and spotless little inn bedrooms with a family likeness to Dairies. And now the Swiss marksmen were for ever rifle-shooting at marks across gorges, so exceedingly near my ear, that I felt like a new Gesler in a Canton of Tells, and went in highly-deserved danger of my tyrannical life.
Come, Jasper, although our hands are out, let us see what the other lads can do with the rifle." Pathfinder and his companions retired, for the sports were about to proceed. The ladies, however, were not so much engrossed with rifle-shooting as to neglect the calash.
It is not the way of rifle-shooting English colonists to permit herds of big game to run about merely to be looked at. Naturally, the open plains of Africa, and the thin forests of the plateau regions, will be the first to lose their big game. Whenever and wherever savages become supplied with rifles, then it is time to measure each big-game animal for its coffin.
Armed with clubs, spears, steel gaffs and rifles, the hunters would paddle out into the storm. There were three types of hunting long distance rifle-shooting, which the Russians taught the Aleuts; still hunting in a calm sea; storm hunting on the kelp-beds and rocks as the wild tide rode in with its myriad swimmers.
During this time I have discovered that I have a genius for rifle-shooting. Mr. Pike swore I must have had long practice; and I confess I was myself startled by the ease of the thing. Of course, it's the knack; but one must be so made, I suppose, in order to be able to acquire the knack.
"There, don't look nettled; I only jested with you, knowing your weakness on the score of rifle-shooting. Now, pick up your bird, and throw it into the canoe, for I must away."
The light was very bad for rifle-shooting, but our front sights were of ivory, and our birds were skyed; so drawing the best beads we could, we fired simultaneously, and with great success, two fine birds dropping dead at our feet, the others making off.
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