Word: buckshotting
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Dates: during 1886-1886
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...hard character generally, who took a particular delight in pulling down the dam which flowed Spot Pond meadows, owned by one Timothy Sprague. On one occasion while he was at his usual sport, Sprague saw him, and ordered him to desist, whereupon he wounded Sprague with a charge of buckshot. Either for this or for some other escapade, he was sentenced to sit for several hours upon the gallows, of course at the county jail in Cambridge; and he occupied his time in composing rhymes of which the following is a specimen...