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DOMESTIC MANNERS OF THE TKUSSIANS.

standing at the edge of the island, and with a number oftargets in sentry-boxes that are built on stilts, as it were, atsome distance out in the water.

At Bregenz, again, we see the same Institution. Thisat first has the appearance of a landing-pier, or swimming-school, for the Bregenzer Schützenhaus is a largish buildingfacing the lake, and somewhat like the Margate bathing-saloons in style. It has a balcony overlooking the water, andset with seats for the spectators, after the fashion of ourriver-side taverns; and beneath these is the room from theWindows of which the rifles are fired, each casement beingfitted with a bell-wire that Stretches, telegraph-like, alongpoles towards the stilted sentry-box-like target-houses thatstand in the water immediately facing the house. A smallgangway raised on piles extends from the Schiitzenhaus tothe target-boxes, where, during the practice, boys are stationedto signal the result of each shot.

Through the week the Windows of the aquatic shooting-gallery are kept closed, and the house itself is used for thepurposes of a school, while the fancy targets, ornamented withfigures of Justice, Mercury, &c, are taken into the hall,where they may be seen all pock-marked with shot and asfüll of holes as a slug-eaten cabbage-leaf.

On the Sunday, howevej, the place is all alive with thecrowds of riflemen, and the air resounds with the sharpcrack of the guns and tinkle of the target-bells.

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