Thoughts
It’s like a trope in movies today that the scoundrel character hits 10 bullseyes in a row, well,
> Instead of targets, playing cards had been fixed to the board.
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> said the count “I was making a pack of cards…those are aces and twos that you see; my bullets made them into threes, fives, sevens, eights, nines, and tens.”
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> indeed, the bullets had replaced the absent symbols with perfectly precise holes at perfectly equal distances