Her hand on his arm sent a shiver up his spin, and he smiled. "Well then I think we had best get started." He took them out back of the house and down a piece where the back of the town was and away from everyone. There was a fence with posts and he found some cans and bottles and put them up on top of the posts. "Now for shooting a rifle. one must hold it tight against the shoulder or risk injuring it." he place the rifle in her hands and placed one on the stock of the rifle and the butt of the weapon at her shoulder. He stood behind her and positioned her hands and body. The scent of her perfume filled his nose and having his arms basiclly around her was thrilling. Raising her arms up, so that the rifle was in position, he said. Now look through the V shaped cut in the rear sight and line it up with the front sight." he helped her aim somewhat towards one of the bottles. Once you have the sights on the target all you have to do is squeeze the trigger. Key word there is squeeze, don't jerk it." Making sure she had it tight against her shoulder he removed his arms from around her and let her pull the trigger. The first round hit the post just below the bottle. Not bad for her first shot. He showed her how to cock the weapon by using the lever and then helped her place it again into position. He was enjoying every moment of it and he heard the two girls giggling as they watched as they sat on a log.<br/><br/>Her next shot hit the bottle, shattering it. He then stood back and watched as she cocked the weapon and kept shooting. Now Rutherford was wanting to still talk to her and seen them disappear behind the house. He followed and seen how close Jed was to her, and his arms about her and she did not seem to reject him being that close and having his arms about her, and anger and jealous rage began to build. Oh how he hated Jed his plans were being wrecked. He had a large bet with his friends back east that he could bring her back to Boston and have his way with her. He had been so confident of it. It seemed his engagement with the one woman had lasted. He had been found out as having an affair with another woman and she broke the engagement off. Now he was desperate to get Olivia to come back with him to try and get her family fortune, when her father died. Jed was ruining the whole thing. He stood there fuming until they were done and began to head back to the house. He moved away and made sure no one saw him. Being the man he was, he was to much of a coward to confront Jed. He didn't have his friends there to back him up. He had no one but himself and he didn't like that.<br/><br/>They returned to the house and Jed showed her how to place the wood into the stove and the kendeling and then light it. Once it was going he showed her how to stoke it to keep the wood burning evenly and then when she should check it to add more. The wood burning oven was the same thing and he made sure the wood piles in the house had enough fire wood for both to last a couple of days. "That was a good lesson out there. You did good. A bit more practice and you will be hitting things all the time. " he told her.<br/><br/>As he let her get ready for dinner at the hotel, the two girls came up to him. "Mr. Walker. I think Auntie likes you. We would not mind if you would come a calling on her." they gave him big grins. "We don't think she would mind either."