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Maggie’s Motivational Pic Thread v2.0 - - New Rules - See Post #1
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You know who you are (basically all of you)
Well, you know the difference between a sneaky midget and venereal disease, right?
One is a cunning runt and the other is…
Cheers, sirhr
Shame on you, you dirty dirty old men!
Our struggle for the fourteenth colony: Canada, and the American Revolution : Smith, Justin Harvey, 1857-1930 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
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But the essential distinction of these men lay in their
heavy rifles and in the way they handled them. like the
long-bow archers of Henry VIII. , they began to shoot so
young that such work became like walking or breathing.
The Virginians, it is said, had been punished in boyhood
for hitting game anywhere except in the head, and those
from Pennsylvania seem to have been no less expert. 'A
correspondent informs us,' reported a Philadelphia paper,
' that one of the gentlemen appointed to command a com-
pany of Rifle Men, to be raised in one of our frontier
counties, had so many applications from the people in his
neighbourhood to be enrolled for the service, that a greater
number presented than his instructions permitted him to
engage, and being unwilling to give offence to any,
thought of the following expedient, viz. He, with a
piece of chalk, drew on a board a figure of a nose of
common size, which he placed at the distance of 150
yards, declaring that those who could come nearest the
mark should be enlisted; when 60 odd hit the object.'
* General Gage,' added the editor, ' take care of your nose! '
Doubtless, like all popular marvels, their dexterity grew
in the telling; but the British called 'these shirt-tail
men, with their cursed twisted guns,' 'the most fatal
widow-and-orphan makers in the world,' while an enthu-
siastic officer in their own body described them concisely
as 'beautiful boys, who knew how to handle and aim the
rifle.'"
