You could cut down those bushes on the other side of the creek, and put up your target over there on that hill.

Then you could lie down here on the grass and bang away all day.
If you'll do that, I'll come down and practice with you.

How long are you going to keep it up ?" I told him that we expected to spend my two weeks' vacation here.
"Not if it rains, my boy," said he.

"I know what it is to camp out in the rain." Meanwhile, Mrs.Atkinson had been with Euphemia examining the tent, and our equipage generally.
"It would be very nice for a day's picnic," she said; "but I wouldn't want to stay out-of-doors all night." And then, addressing me, she asked: "Do you have to breathe the fresh air all the time, night as well as day?
I expect that is a very good prescription, but I would not like to have to follow it myself." "If the fresh air is what you must have," said the captain, "you might have got all you wanted of that without taking the trouble to come out here.

You could have sat out on your back porch night and day for the whole two weeks, and breathed all the fresh air that any man could need." "Yes," said I, "and I might have gone down cellar and put my head in the cold-air box of the furnace.