Archie's Archery

• 1910
• Other, Comedy

He didn't look as though his name were Archie. It might have been Archibald, but they all called him Archie and that ended it. Some of Archie's young friends were practicing archery and Archie thought he would try. He made a bull's eye the very first thing and he got all swelled up about it. Right smack in the center of the inner ring, and he had never before snapped a bowstring! You can't quite blame him for getting chesty, but that was no reason why the accidental hit should have sent him out to get the practice that makes perfect. He could not know, when he aimed at a sheet on the line, that the wash lady was on the other side, but in a moment she knew that there was someone like Archie, and she went to look for him. There were others who came to a sudden decision that they would like to see Archie, and in somewhat of a hurry at that Archie did not know this until it was rather late to make a getaway, but he did by giving the bow to a tramp, and perhaps one of these days Archie will figure as the archery champion and make bull's eyes that are not beginner's luck and the result of shutting his eyes just as he lets the bowstring fly.