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I20 BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA finger cut away, will do very well for this, though the ready-made tips at the archery stores are more convenient. Some archers who practise all their lives can shoot without protecting the fingers. The bow case and quiver are important. Any kind of a cover that will keep them from the rain, and hang on your back, will do, but there are many little things that help to make them handy. When the cover is off the arrows should project 3 or 4 inches so that they may be more easily drawn out. The Indians often car- ried very beautiful quivers of buckskin ornamented with quills and beads. One day out West I saw an Omaha brave with a bow case and quiver covered with very odd material — a piece of common red and white cotton-print. When allowed to examine it, I felt some OMAHA BOW-CASE AND QUIVER OF BUCKSKIN AND QUILLWORK other material underneath the print. After a little dickering he sold me bow, arrows, quiver, and all for a couple of dollars. I then ripped open the print and found my first suspicions confirmed; for underneath, the quiver was of buckskin, beautifully em- broidered with red feathers and porcupine quills of deep red and turquoise blue. The Indian was as much puzzled by my pref- erence for the quill-work as I was by his for the cotton-print. The standard target, for men, is 4 feet across with a 9-inch bullseye, and around that 4 rings, each 4^ inches wide. The bullseye counts 9, the other rings 7, 5, 3, i. The bought targets are made of straw, but a good target may be made of a box filled with sods, or a bank covered with sacking on which are painted the usual rings. Now comes the most important point of all — how to shoot.