. The ball of yarn;. it has noIseginning. SHOOTING MADE EASY. Two passengers coming down the Mississippi in a steamboat, were amusingthemselves with shooting birds on shore from the deck. Some sporting con-verse ensued. One remarked that he would turn his back to no man inkilling raccoonsâthat he had repeatedly shot fifty a-day. What o that,said a Kentuckian. I make nothing of killing a hundred coon a day,ornary luck. Do you know Captain Scott of our state ? asked aTennessean bystander; he now is something like a shot. A hundredcoon! why ho never pints at one without hitting him. He never miss
. The ball of yarn;. it has noIseginning. SHOOTING MADE EASY. Two passengers coming down the Mississippi in a steamboat, were amusingthemselves with shooting birds on shore from the deck. Some sporting con-verse ensued. One remarked that he would turn his back to no man inkilling raccoonsâthat he had repeatedly shot fifty a-day. What o that,said a Kentuckian. I make nothing of killing a hundred coon a day,ornary luck. Do you know Captain Scott of our state ? asked aTennessean bystander; he now is something like a shot. A hundredcoon! why ho never pints at one without hitting him. He never missas,and the coons know it. Tother day he leveled at an old un in a hightree ; the varmint looked at him a minute, and then bawled out, Scott! is that you ? Yes, wns the reply. Well, pray dont shoot,Ill come down to youâIll give inâIm dead beat. THE CHARITY BALL. K* -ing purchased a ticket for a Charity Ball, you are deluded by th*>promise of a pretty Partner to waltz, and are victimized as
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