I had a rifle-range at Sagamore Hill, where I often took friends to shoot.

Once or twice when I was visited by parties of released Boer prisoners, after the close of the South African War, they and I held shooting matches together.

The best man with both pistol and rifle who ever shot there was Stewart Edward White.

Among the many other good men was a stanch friend, Baron Speck von Sternberg, afterwards German Ambassador at Washington during my Presidency.

He was a capital shot, rider, and walker, a devoted and most efficient servant of Germany, who had fought with distinction in the Franco-German War when barely more than a boy; he was the hero of the story of "the pig dog" in Archibald Forbes's volume of reminiscences.