Archery

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1901 Excerpt: ...is little of the extraordinary in this, but a good deal in what he declared was the fact--that on crossing over he discovered that he had twentyfour hits and twenty-four reds! The story is well known, and was always related as above. I have made many inquiries about it, and, strange as it sounds, may say that an archer now living, who probably knew Edwards better than anyone else, told me with reference to this very story 'that he had never found him untruthful.' Dean Hole, in his pleasant' Memories,' p. 10, has an anecdote of Edwards:--Mr. Edwards, of Birmingham, a successful archer, communicated to me an incident which blended tragedy and comedy in a remarkable degree. He had received a dozen new arrows from Buchanan, and went forth to try these in a paddock adjoining his house. He had made eleven successive hits at 60 yards, and was delighted with his purchase, when.a cow which he had not observed slowly approached the target and pushed it down with her horns. 'You will guess what I did,' he continued. 'It was no longer in my power to make a bull's eye, but I touched up the other end of the cow'--and I think Dean Hole must have touched up the story. It is generally believed that Mr. Edwards's private practice was far beyond his public shooting. He has been heard to say that, though Mr. Ford had been able to land only seventy-one out of the seventy-two arrows shot at 100 yards in the targets (missing his fifty-ninth arrow), he (Mr. Edwards) had put all his seventy-two arrows into the target at the same distance.--Ford on Archery, Butt, p. 293. Edwards died about 1870. THOMAS LANE COULSON (BRISTOL AND CLIFTON) Mr. Coulson is another instance of fair success attained with the bow when only taken up for the first time very late in life. He was fifty-one year...