The new plan worked with great success, and a little practice made expert marksmen. We know that most of the early races used it for hunting and in war. We find it shown in pictures made many thousands of years ago in ancient Egypt and Assyria. We find it in the Roman army where the slingman was called a "funditor."

We find it in the Bible where it is written of the tribe of Benjamin: "Among all these people there were seven hundred chosen men left-handed; every one could sling a stone at an hair breadth and not miss." Surely, too, you remember the story of David and Goliath when the young shepherd "prevailed over the Philistine with a sling and with a stone."

Today shepherds tending their flocks upon these same hills of Syria may be seen practicing with slings like those of David. Yes, and slings were used in European armies until nearly a hundred years after America was discovered.