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Weekly Mercury

Birmingham, Saturday, May 14, 1887.

"LITTLE SURE-SHOT."

Miss Anna Oakley, the celebrated wing shot, of whom we give a picture, gives an exhibition of her skill with the rifle.T he great Indian chief "Sitting Bull," after seeing her shoot at St. Paul's, Minnesota, adopted her in the Sioux tribe, giving her the name of "Mazza-Cow-Ah-Pazzo," or "Little Sure-Shot." At one of her shooting contests, near Cincinnati, out of 5,000 glass balls thrown from traps, at 15 yards rise, she broke 4,772. She is also a spendid horsewoman.

Miss Anna Oakley,

The Champion Markswoman of America.

The extraordinary skill in rifle shooting displayed by the two young American girls (one only fifteen years old) will interest those who have a taste for firearms. For myself, I was glad to get beyond the sound of the sharp crack and accompanying applause that told "another bullet had found its billet." I have a righteous horror of all firearms, be it said, and am never quite easy even when they are not charged. Miss Annie Oakley, the elder of these rival crack shots, won the admiration of the Comtesse de Paris, who was with the Prince and Princess of Wales when they visited the "Wild West Show." By no means abashed in the presence of Royalty, the fair Republican presented