Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1884-06-20
A SLIM MANS SHOT.
How One Shot from an Old Musket
Killed $50 DuckA
The Part Played BY = Spool -
Wire Thrcad-..A Story That
Silenced and Routed
Every Listener.


[Peck's SUM-
A number Of gentlemen were in the depot
waiting-room admiring fine lot Of ducks .
friend had shot up on the lake, and were
somewhat surprised to hear him tell Of killing
three ducks with one discharge Of his gun.
About this time a slim, pointed. nosed man.
who had been quietly listening, remarked:
that's nothing very extraordinary"
Maybe that's the way you elways kill
ducks, sarcastically remarked the hunter.
"Wai, that depends on how l load my
gum" replied the slim man.
'Then it does make difference how you
load, does it, l presume you use about .
peck Of six-ounce bullets remarked the
hunter, who began to feel that the glory with
which he had covered himself had melted
and was beginning to run of.
wal, now, don't you get ratified. don't
know as I'll give the scheme away" retorted
the slim man.
"How many ducks did you ever kill in one
shotp asked an interested listener.
"Wal, stranger, have killed and strung
over fifty Of EN-" answered the slim man.
Fifty ducks at ono shotr exclaimed half Q
dozen.
"Yes, over fifty" replied the slim man, "an'
don't mind telling ye how TWAS done, if ye
really want 10 know"
"How on earth could you have done such .
thingl You must have been where the ducks
were thick.' ventured meek-looking indi-
vidual.
@Wal, if yen give me chance I'll tell ye.
/ took a trip up to Calumet several years ago
and never seed SO many ducks in all my
life. l took an old army musket along and
one cartridge"
zone cartridgep exclaimed half dozen.
"You don't mean to say you only took one
cartridge and no other ammunition"
wal, | didn't take anything else but an
old army musket, one cartridge and Q big
spool of wire thread. That's the SOM total Of
what | always take. Ye see, l."
"What was the wire fort" inquired the
meek man.
wait till finish, hang il, and then ye'll
know. Wal, when got out on clear water
away from the rushes, saw about q million
Of ducks right ahead of me. just took the
end of wire and fastened it to the bullet in
the cartridge and loaded my gun an put
the spool on the bottom Of the boat where
thought it wouldn't get tangled up and then
waited for a good chance l happened to
blow my nose, which of course made noise,
and every duck raised his head to see
what was up. ! drew bead on the
eye of the duck nearest to me and pulled
the trigger before they had chance to
get scared. Jewhiz! how that spool did spin
while the wire was unwindingl The ducks
flow away, frightened by the noise Of the
gun, but had Just $50 ducks all strung by
their heads on that wire. The bullet had
gone through their heads, dragging the wire
with it, and it took eyes every time except
ing one; it took the tail Of that duck just as
he raised from the water. The bullet would
have got more ducks, only the spool got
caught before the wire was all unwound and
stopped it. l believe if I had had another
cartridge and another spool of
The slim man found himself talking to the
stove. The rest had fled and none but he re-
NAMED