DID THE AUDIENCE KICK ? "That thar gun kicks like the blazes !" Thus the old huntsman to his rroup of youthful satellites, eager lor stories. "Bless yer, that gun kicks so mucl it can't be handled by any but i nodern Samson !" "And used you to use it ?" gaspe< a boy in a sailor-suit. ''l used," assented the old hunts man. "And when I got used to it then I could manage it all right But it's a good thing the first tim; I ever took it out I couldn't. Th< grizzly bear was upon me, chargin like a battalion. I raised me gun uissed nim, an' on he came. And if it hadn't been that the gun ha( kicked me so far back that I ha< time to reload, I shouldn't have bcej bfjre.to tell the etorv i"
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King Country Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 372, 24 June 1911, Page 3
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138Page 3 Advertisements Column 2 King Country Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 372, 24 June 1911, Page 3
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