A GOOD SHOT.
Two passengers coming down the Mississipi in a steamboat, were amusing themselves with shooting birds on shore from the deck. Some sporting converse ensued. One remarked that he would turn his back to no man in killing racoons—that he had repeatedly shot fifty a day, * What o’ that,’ said a Kentuckian, ‘ I make nothing of killing a hundred ’coon a day, ordinary luck, ’ ‘ Do you know Captain Scott of our State ?’ asked a Tennessean bystander, ‘ he, now, is something like a shot, A hundred ’coon ? why he never pints at one without hitting him. T’ other day he levelled at an old ’un, in a high tree ; the varmint looked at him a minute, and then bawled out, ‘ Halloo, Cap’n Scott! is that you ?’ ‘ Yes,’ was the reply, * Well, pray don’t shoot, I’ll come down to you —I’ll give in—l’m dead beat.’
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Globe, Volume IV, Issue 326, 29 June 1875, Page 4
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145A GOOD SHOT. Globe, Volume IV, Issue 326, 29 June 1875, Page 4
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