A GREAT KICKER.
'That thar gun kicks like the blazes!" Tims the old huntsman to his group of youthful satellites, eagSr for stories. "Bless yer, that gun kicks so much it can't be handled gy any but a modern Samson!" "And used you to use it?" gasped the boy in a sailor suit. "I used," assented the old huntsman. "And when I got used to it, then I could manage it all right. But "it's a good thing the first time 1 took it out I couldn't. The grizzly bear was upon me, chargin' like a 'battalion. I raised me gun, missed him. an' on lie came. And if it hadn't been that the gun hadn't kicked, ine so far back that I had time to re-load, I shouldn't have been here to tell the story!"
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 96, 1 August 1910, Page 8
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136A GREAT KICKER. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 96, 1 August 1910, Page 8
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