The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1878-10-02
WHAT he Great Rifle Shot Says of the
Use OF the Bow and Arrow.

You see" said DR.. Carver, as he de-
posted whole sheaf of brightly feath-
cred arrows on a table, and took off his
um brageous felt, and drew up chair, II
must be shooting something or other all
the time. If itYisn'r Winchester it's a
bow and arrow. Pretty, they are. But
most too fine Fancy things, THESE arrows,
for handsome young ladies to shoot on
grass plats at straw targets. Now, an
Indian arrow is good bit longer maybe
thirty two Understand when Sioux
draws it cEock up to the bow it fairly
huns when he lets it fly.
"An Indian arrow has grooves cut in it
behind the barb, that is to say the. ones
they use in hunting, so that the blood can
flow, otherwise the wood would spoil and
swell. The fighting arrows are nasty
things. The barb is so put on the shaft
that when it hits you the steel, or old
hoop iron, stays in the flesh when you go
to pull out the arrow. Dear sakes! what
ugly wounds have seen them make! An
Indian boy begins to handle light DOW
when he toddles, maybe at four or five
years. rs sss.-,S IS
His bow is taller than he is. He shoots,
at most anything around the camp
When he is twelve he uses sharp arrows
A boy must be strong at eighteen to use
a mans bow. Now, white man who
| takes an Indian bow for the first time
has all he can do to bend it. It wants
some strength, but more knack. The
bow is made straight. When it is strung,
the cord, even when in tension, almost
touches the bow. It's thick, some four
and half to five feet long--that is their
hunting bow-and has extra stiffening by
having s1news pasted on it. Ky have seen
We-shessa- has ka, that's their long man,
| and he was the best Of the Ogala Sioux,
kill an antelope with his arrow at 1875
measured yards. We-shessa-ha s-ka was
nearly. seven feet tall, and good Indian
| On horseback, broadside to a buffalo, I
have more than once known that Indian
to send an arrow through a big COW. The
arrow hung out on the other side. The
bow for horseback and for war is a tr;he
shorter and maybe sitter III $5
1 You do not draw the arrow to the eye
but catch aim rs do when shooting from
the hip. That can only be acquired by
long practice. The string is drawn BY
the clutch of the whole fingers, though
4 some OF tie tribes use the thumb and
three fingers. The Long Man could shoot
an arrow IN the air out of sight, and SO
Ecan I (the doctor pointed to an arrow
buried up to the feather in the ceiling Of
our office, his own peculiar ornamental
I ton of the Forest and Stream sanctum). T
get into perfect practice, for used to
hold my own with any Indian on the
plains. Sometimes after I had been
shooting with my Winchester, all Indian
would cume up and show his bow, and
tell me his bow was 'muchee good;' but
! then used to take bis own bow and beat
I him at it.
$40 pass away the time, when was at
the Brooklyn Driving Park / bought me
an English bow and arrows, and soon got
! into the trick Of it.. I hit blocks of wood
thrown into the air quite as often as ]
missed them. The English bows and ar
rows are fancy, but good. would rath-
Ell have an old Sioux one, made Of hick-
DRY or ash: but the boss bow ever own
ed was made Of buffalo-rlbs. An Indian
/ carries his culver Of arrows over his right
shoulder, SO that he can get his arrows
I HIlCh1y- w ACA ilC3 .udS OISCllalSCIlt OliG
4 arrow (the doctor pronounces arrow with
a single letter; be calls it an R) with the
/ same motion that he uses in pulling tx
i string he clutches another arrow If ht
II shoots 100 yards he has three or four ar.
} rows in the air, all going at the same
| time.
u It's great fun shooting at a bird with !
j long tail, that flies over the prairie
i Knock out his tail and his steering ap
{ paratus is gone, have knocked the tai
out Of many q one, and SO caught him il
j my hands when he tumbled See here
:. Talking about these things Just make
j me long to be back AGAIN on the plains
J New York is a mighty good place. Ant
! I have made lots Of friends; but somehow
Il I want a horse, and big field with mile
L on miles before me to gallop over, AMI
/ buffalo just a-showing on the divide.
J And here DR.. Carver shut his eye