Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1888-01-18
A NOVEL INDUSTRY.
The Happv Thought of Onc of BrookIyn's
Red-Iieaded Young B1en.

The HAPPY Thought of Onc of BroOk1yn's
Red-Eeaded Young B.en.
turkey that looks so weak in the pins
that II always lies down, two creatures so
emaciated and shrunlzeu that only u good
long look recalls them as barnyard eagles,
and white creature with yellow beak
that suggests duck, these and board bear
ing the legend, ''To Be Shot For" may be
seen in the window Of a Brooklyn shooting
gallery, says the Eagle, of that city. The
livestock looks very fuzzy and damp and
limp, and the four beaks are ever wearily
turning over sawtust and sand in the vain
expectation of finding grain ofeereal. The
fact that these birds ana that board have fig
uFed IN the windows of several shooting
galleries during year or so attracted the
attention OF newspaper man who made it
point to attend the shoot in question
In a sitting place where cigarette smoke
had driven out the atmosphere, were CON
gregated some twenty or thirty boys and
youths who were animated by the laudable
desire TO win the poultry via the bulls-eye.
after many pops much noise and not little
profanity, the turkey and duck were won by
a young man with hair which suggested a
white horse. The chickens were captured
by two others VINO each received twenty
five cents in lieu thereof. At the close of
the competition the young man with the
whltc-horse hair, all the other competitors
having departed, held a brief conference
with the proprietor, packed up his game and
notice board IN q crate and vanished.
week or 50 later the same operations
were repeated at another store uptown
the same old poultry, the same old board
and the same young man with the sanguin-
airy hair. He won the prizes again, and
again carted them off in a crate. Finding
calf r+l.
made the following interesting statement:
I'm stove finisher by trade. In the
evenin's / was always fond of shootin' and
uster go round the shootin'- galleries At
last got to shoot so well S could be pretty
sure of winnin' any shootin match for
prizes. Wall, the prizes amt worth much,
and the proprietor of the gallery ral1es in
tidy Doodle for shots in the match and for
practicin' beforehand. / didn't practice
and always won. So lit on the idea of
lettin' the poultry prizes out for show for
week an talSin' the chances of winnin'
'em in the match. The proprietors of the
galleries pay me from three dollars to five
dollars for the weeks use of the birds, and
in the match takes my chance of any one
else winnin' 'em. l generally win 'em back
for less than fifty cents a piece"
''Do you have any other prizes to let out.'
"Nes. I've got two small pigs, cheap silver
cups and lots of things that make a good
show and bring me in about ten dollars a
week in Brooklyn and New York I've had
d many as eight shooting matches "a week.
Yes. Once or twice I've been dropped to.
In Thru avenue, New York. some time ago,
the proprietor OF gallery put up a job on
me. put up silver cup for first prize, a
pig for second, turEey for third and ducks
and chickens for otEc. prizes. We made a
big show and | was to have one-half of the
receipts OF the match, but nothing else
Wen, TO make long story short, we only
took IN about six dollars, and three fellers
there won all the prizes and 1 got left 1
was about twelve dollars out.