The Archive · 1902

Foochow Gun Club

(From Tue "Dany Eeno.")

The announcement of a "Snipe-shooting" contest by the local Gun Club gave a more than usual interest to the contest at Green Island last Wednesday afternoon [and a hands-me prize, offered Rickett, of the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank, gaveanadditionalzest to the occasion, Snipe-shooting," we discovered to differ from the ordinary contests only in th that each marksman gave the word, "ready," and at the same time advanced cautiously toward the traps as he might do when after the living bird, and at varying

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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