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the gallery "a Joha : Con'i1. ts2s 81
pss,o! Workmanship Which ~ozid DAks
auy one o, Tic olds;yle a hand 'h-'t
CT. Stand IN wonder. The ra.rkfusan
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ard finished pss,ol.hot in ihc crastT
He ts \ vuung man # -, &c younefa'
soa q the ate Thomas Lord tie - ~
athlete zad aCmnss.. Ani S'S'u; l~.
be began 10 ~ a. skill as : shot - thc
old Con,ia gallery. TIE fsats q tAp'
John Traysrs. now ot Cleveland. bal
become \ tradition, thoogh ~hcu sandy
Lawrence kept = ieu-pla alley on the
Ike e the pr,scn; As,or Housc, in'-
er,'s gallery attached IA u sa~ one
wonderful! exhibitions a: s'sNttrcss And
xiii with small arms. One 81 tAPt
Traye-s's fca,s was n .hOo; Awsv = -
yer lhn~c-c.rt b; PLACED het~ccn hts
toe.. and when Blontin crossed The ~.
asara be allowed Capt TrAyoTs - Pu'A
bal through hrs "a, Prom = drutti'E
friend Cspt IrAysTs Won = diamond
ring by putting : shot through The unE,
and his fest II picking al o-Ange from
hts sons head wAstrfsd again and ssan
Since Cant. Travr~s tiIe billiards
have driven gut tea pins, Sni rhe
shooting =. long distances has crowded
pi.tol-shoo;iag y, = PAGES into t''use
Mr.. Lord, however, confines hi sport
almos, entirely 81 .hc smaller weapon,
though he }, i fine IIfc ,hui. lie - =
member 81 TIE New York Club. and b.
bachelor chambers are adorned VITA a
curious stock q pistols. la Pans he has
met Paul DO tsssaguac and others 81
the French dueliug clique, and aston
ished them with the certainty 81 h. aim
The Forest gHf Stream, n an article en-
ricbed with drawing, Of Nh Lords iar
gets, saws
For ten seasons past he has been
chosen by the Encli.h speaking resi-
dent, uf Pans a their champion, and =
well chosen representative has be prov
en-. Oa one occasion he performed
among other fssts Of accurate marks
manship, the following A cap 81 an
ordinary muskrt was placed upon the
neck II = champagne bottle, and Mr.
Lord, standing =, thirty-sIN feet, or
twelve psceS, with All ordinary duc!inE
pistol picked of the cap without scratch.
ing the glass. The same feat WAS re
pea,ed. but with the pistol transferred
from the night Ia the LEFT hAnd Ia"
more caps were picked uf 10y the right
and left hand firing respectively, IN
these Instances the pistol WAS held IN -
reverse position, with the line ui s'ghi
below instead Of above the line Of hr"
The next shot was "a fancy one, Mr.
Lord standing with back Ia the object
fired al. leaning far forward, and then
with pistol pointed back between his
legs, picked of the cap IS before. The
last 81 the six shots was made sitting ia
a chair. again with back II targc. and
leaning back until the target could hc
seen Nv the head and eyes bent back
IL j. Il fayorite feat 10 suspend his watch
a fine imported piece, costing >-ao-
and put sho, after shot through the loop
at thirty-siX feet. A match cor wooden
t~oothpick laid across the Opening oi the
golden loop i cut c.canly through. nni
though the watch has been under fire
scores and hundreds of times, II still
ticks on toward the dav which may
come when "A bullet a fraction Of an inch
out of the way may scatter the works M
a shower Of wheels and piuIous.
in shooting AZ the word If command,
as in dueliny, wher. the SECONDS cry
out, .'Arr YOU ready" Ready"
sF!re-one-t three" the shooter
being required II shoot between the
words fire" and three" MIR. Lord,
with n dueling pistol at twelve PAGES,
struck down six ! inch bullets hung up
by threads. Such an adversary on The
field Of honor would satisfy the Chiyal-
ric warnings of about any mortal. At
the word lone" Mr.. Lord fired ten con
secutive shots into 4 li-inch circle, same
distance.
In Paris, where fantastic shooting is
very much in vogue, he - known a.
lie diable Americain." He has time
and again AZ fifteen PAGES put loo shots
~consecutively into a space Of an Ordina-
~ playiug-card. On a recent date, as
showing his ability for long range fir
ing with the pistol, he struck two caps
out of three shots N = distance ~ sixty
feet. As the ordinary mu-kct cap l.
about one-eight of M inch across the
mere seeing of the mark was somewhat
Of a feat, but tn see and hit a. well was
something entirely beyond the common
Yet il was done n a certain hour pre-.
viOusly agreed upon before a large mum
Der of marksmen, including many MEM
bers of the New York and /ettier Rifle
Clubs. With a Stevens l2-inch barrel
pistol, distance l2j feet, Mr.. Lord pick
4 ~ o..,A1a Of 4 ,nrh lFttlaf. nzInur
right and left hand in turn. Three con-
secu:ive inch bullets fell a. - feet
before shots from a large sized Smith N
Wesson revolver, Russian model, heavy
trigger pull.
Many attempts have been made To
bring together Mr.. Lord and Recorder
Hackett, and the clubmen have backed
these famous pis,ol-shots on several &C
casions, but the Judge is somewhat:
wary.