"Of course, the longer ranges are useful for firing at a body of men.

I should say that large tree would be about the extreme range.

If you will send two men down to it, I will see whether I can shoot as far.

We should not see the arrow from here.

Will you tell them to stand one on each side of the tree, but well away from it?
There is no saying where the arrow may go, at this distance." When two of the attendants had taken their places, twenty or thirty yards from the tree, Roger drew the bow to the fullest and, giving to the arrow the elevation he had been taught, as most suitable for an extreme range, unloosed the string.