The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1889-06-06

very badly They broke back. went % %
oavod themselves In the aFst drive the
Soionsl and Edward CO@ey got bird each.
In ths SScond drive the latter got three birds.
aring I've shots. and bis Antagonists only got
hare and . pleasant that Jumped out Of .
Snything Gully one brace Of birds eamO biz
Say - all. but II the truth must b told, he
vas talking to Ida Of the mOmsnt. and did
cot 49, them till too IatA
Thea came longer drive when H. birds
were pretty plsniiful The cOionsl got one.
low dying Freedman, which hO killed a.
10 toppSd the fence. and after that for The
ufO Of him no could not touch feather.
Every sp0Ftsman known what . fatal thing
4 10 70 begin " miss and. then get nsTvous,
and that was what happened to The colonel
Continually there became distant eries Of
"MAEki mark overT' followed By the ap
pAritiOn Of half dozen brown halls showing
clear against the gray autumn Gky. add
bwe0plng down toward him light lightning
WhiGs In front, overhead, and behind. hang,
hang, bang-Rgain with the HeconA gun. and
they were AWay-vanished, gonS, IsAVing
nothIng but memory behind them.
The colonel SwOre beneath his breath, and
Ida, kneeling 81 his side. sighed aUdibiy. but
Il Was nc uSo. and presently the drive wa
done, and there be was with one ErStchsd
French partridge 10 show for IL
Ida said nothing, but she looked volumes,
and sver . man felt humiliated Harold
Quaritch Was that man She had ct her
heart up0n his winning the match, and b
vas making an exhibition Of himself thai
might have caused school boy 70 blush.
Only Edward COassy smiled grimly - b
told bis bearer 70 give The two and half
bruce which hO had shot 70 George
"l1Ast drive this ne1t. gOntlOmsn," aid
that universal functiouaFy - hO surveyed
the Colonel's ono FrenchnlaA, and then,
glAneing sadly at the tell tale pile Of empty
cartridge caSss, added; You'll have "a
shoot Up, colonel, this time, Il you are going
70 win them gloV0 for Miss Ida M. Cos
~ has knocked up four braeS And 10 half,
and you have only got . bracA Look you
here, air, !" b went on in portentouS whisper
keep toFrard Of them, well fOrrard, Ore
Ahsad and down thoyu coma You're q
better shot than b iS, . long Uay. You
could give him birds sir. that you could
and beat him"
Harold MD nOthing he va Sorsly
sSa@aFASA ~ AAA-3N NA%NlNNe = ~ AAA-a "eAAa
have bean, and b might with truth havS
urged that hs was not accustomed 70 part
ridge driving, and that one Of The guns VA
new 10 him. But be resisted mAnfully, and
said never . word.
George placed the two guns and then vent
Oh 70 Join the beaterG It was capital spol
for q drive. for on each side were young
larch plantations, sloping down toward them
like v, the gunS being at the narrow end
and level with the ends Of the plantations
which were at this spot about hundred and
twenty yards apart In front was q largI
strotch Of open aslds, lying In such q fashion
that the birds were bound 70 ny strnight OVei
the guns and between the gap at the end d
the v shaped Govern
They bad 70 wait long willis, for the beai
was Of considerable extent, and this they did
In silence, till presently . couple Of singh,
birds appeared coming down the wind Liz
lightning. for q stiffiSh breeze had sprunl
up One went to the left over EdwarI
CosseyS bead, and be shot u very beatly
but the other. catching sight Of Harold bal
beneath the fence. which was not . very
high one, SWsrVed and crossed, On almosl
Impossible shot, nsaror Slxty than Afty yard
from him.