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Updated: June 27, 2025
Africa got entirely too hot to cut any ice with me. Ten days after I had made my friend Ptolemy turn over in his grave, Admiral Nelson came along with an English fleet and challenged our Admiral Brueys to a shooting-match for the championship of Aboukir Bay.
Some ran all over his person, others under him and still others ran up the tree against which he was sitting. Each boy remained immovable until their leader gave the signal; then a great shout arose, and the chipmunks in their flight all ran up the different trees. Now the shooting-match began.
"You won't speak to him," she implored, "and you won't tell Cass?" "I won't do anything you don't want me to," promised Quin, proffering his handkerchief with his sympathy, "It's your shooting-match, and Cass has got to keep his hands off." Cass at this moment cautiously opened the front door, and stood in his bare feet, viewing them with anxious suspicion.
The sun was high in the heavens before I was able to resume my journey. One day I came across an encampment of Boer hunters. Tired of killing game, they were indulging in the diversion of a shooting-match. I was cordially welcomed, and invited to join in the competition.
Then burst on me in all its broad reality the dread horror for which I was reserved then did I comprehend the design of that white circle with its centre of red: the savages were about to hold a shooting-match my own bosom was to be their target! Yes to hold a shooting-match was undoubtedly the design of my captors; and equally clear was it that my breast was to be their mark.
She said it was a mean shame to make a joke about a thing like that, seeing there wasn't a day when it mightn't happen; and it wasn't like an ordinary shooting-match, she said, that come along in the regular way and both of you took your chances; and sometimes she'd get that mad and worried she'd go right smack out of the room.
Bartja then told the story of the unfortunate shooting-match, finishing with these words: "Croesus blames my imprudence, but I know my brother; I know that when he is angry he is capable of any act of violence, and it is not impossible that at the moment when he felt himself defeated he could have killed me; but I know too, that when his fierce passion has cooled, he will forget my boastful deed, and only try to excel me by others of the same kind.
Such is the state of affairs to-day along the whole Albanian frontier, but nowhere to such a degree as in the provinces bordering on Gusinje. The Voivoda's invitation Concerning an episode on our ride to Velika The fugitive from a blood-feud and his story We arrive at Velika The men of Velika The ménu Border jurisdiction A shooting-match The Kom Pleasant evenings A young philosopher Sunset.
"I'm from America, the United States of America." Peters, do you know I had him AGAIN? If I hadn't I'm a clam! His face was as blank as a target after a militia shooting-match. He turned to an under clerk and says "Where is America? WHAT is America?" The under clerk answered up prompt and says "There ain't any such orb." "ORB?" says I. "Why, what are you talking about, young man?
"Major Duncan derides the idea of mathematics entering into target-shooting; but I tell him philosophy colors, and enlarges, and improves, and dilates, and explains everything that belongs to human life, whether it be a shooting-match or a sermon. In a word, philosophy is philosophy, and that is saying all that the subject requires."
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