the young citizens of London should spend their leisure time in recreation with bows and arrows. We wish some one would bring in a bill now that all the boys, lads, and hobbedehoys should be compelled, by moral suasion, to do the same thing with the rifle; so that we might be as good sharpshooters with that weapon as we are in our money transactions.

In those days the marks usually shot at by archers were butts, prickes, and roavers. The butt was a level mark or target, being placed on a bank or earthwork, and they required a strong arrow, with a very broad feather. The pricke was a mark of compass, but certain in its distance, and to this mark strong swift arrows of one flight, with a middling-sized feather, were best suited; the "roaver" was a mark of uncertain length. It was, therefore, proper for the archer to have various kinds of arrows, of different weights, to be used, according to the different changes made in the distance of the ground.

The feats recorded in archery are many. It seems from the old ballads and histories, that twenty score paces was no uncommon shot. Carew, speaking of the Cornish archers, three centuries back, says,-" For long shooting their shaft was a cloth yard in length, and their prickes 24 score paces, equal to 480 yards. One Robert Arundel could shoot 12 score paces with his right hand, with his left, and from behind his head." About the same time, at a meeting of the Society of Archers, in their ground, the Turkish Ambassador shot from his own Turkish bow arrows that fell four hundred and eighty yards from his standing; but this is a poor feat to what a rifleman can do.