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Beaver Adz was popular among the Indians and was considered the best shot with bow and arrow, in the tribe. Pahshaunts was also an expert shot. "Mike" Powers, owner of the Star Saloon, in Beaver, asked Pahshaunts to come with his bow and arrow and shoot for biscuits. When Mike's supply of biscuits began to get low, he placed one over a broad strap-hinge of iron which was white washed the same as the sawed log stable which they were shooting against. Powers thought this would be a good joke. Click, went the iron spike, striking the biscuit in the center, but spoiling the arrow. Pahshaunts was "toowich toebuck" very angry, and went home with a very sullen face. Samuel D. Hutchings said that a person could place biscuits on the points of a picket fence and Pahshaunts would get across the street with his bow and arrow and pick a biscuit off every shot. C. C. Woodhouse said the squaws would make small bows and arrows and the papooses would learn to shoot when three or four years

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