In the Sunk Lands — page 34: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

IN THE SUNK LANDS. 23 which is rifled for ball. Joe has the largest. He has the customary heavy 10, hght 12, Winchester, and boasts the farther posses- sion of a little German rifle that throws a. bullet thirteen to the pound sewed in greased buckskin. } The latter has its drawbacks with the rest of us, being a muzzle-loader, but it suits Joe. One shot is all he wants, except on rare occasions, and anything he shoots at is as good as dead before the buckskin covered bullet strikes it. The Winchester rifles that each one of us possessed were a present from Bob’s father, a banker of some note. Thus far our shooting had been confined to clay pigeons, snipe, squirrels, rabbits, and oceasionally a go at ducks and quail; but to go where there were bear, deer, pan- ther, and other large game——well, I might say what Treve did—‘ geewhiz !”’ GOMIIcboo <S (E(@) mn