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instead of using more imagination. Some peculiar things happened as a result of this innovation. One man made a number of hits within 75 yds of each other and safe to say if he had aimed at a building with the real thing Mr. Building would have suffered dire consequences. Other fellows dropped the dummies at the same targets and the blamed things couldn't even be located by the markers who were looking for them to dig up and tabulate. One day a poor simpleton couldn't locate the target. A tender with the markers was stationed at one side of the field where the practice was held and the occupants of the same were suddenly startled into extreme and precipitous action of hasty exit by a "plot" and "thud" nearby. The simpleton was actually aiming at the tender; it was a good thing his shots