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I up with my gun at a Burman Who carried a bloomin' dah, But the cartridge stuck and the bay'nit bruk, An' all I got was the scar. Chorus. Ho! don't you aim at a Afghan When you stand on the sky-line clear; An' don't you go for a Burman If none o' your friends is near.
'Well, my men, I have come down to surrender, and I'm sorry to be obliged to do so. But we have fired our last cartridge the doctor thought we had a thousand left in which case, I may as well tell you, you'd never have had this pleasure. Captain Starlight, I surrender my sword or should do so if I had one. We trust to receive honourable treatment at your hands.
Forrest brought his cavalry forward. Wallace's brigade, with Taylor's and McAllister's batteries, and Logan's regiment, with boxes nearly empty, withstood the combined attack. McAllister fired his last round of ammunition. Taylor had fired seventeen hundred rounds of ammunition, an average of two hundred and eighty-three rounds to the piece. The infantry fired their last cartridge.
Without leaving the bridge Ensign Fullerton passed the word for the manning of the gun and loading with a blank cartridge. There was a new, deeper glow in Eph Somers's eyes as he paced the bridge. He was to have, at last, his wish to see the "Sudbury" fire a shot. In a few minutes more the "Sudbury" was ranging tip alongside the schooner, though a full quarter of a mile away to windward. "Mr.
The instant he made his aim sure he pulled the trigger, came to a sitting position, readjusted a cartridge, and placing the glasses to his eyes that he might see the more plainly, watched the result of his shot. "By Jove; another bull's-eye!" he gleefully exclaimed, as he saw his man stagger and fall almost at the feet of Dr. Marlowe.
A few days before, while rummaging in a wooden box which had been the property of her uncle, William Harkness, she had come upon another box, considerably smaller, filled with cartridges. She had examined them thoughtfully, and at last, with much care and trepidation, had taken one of them, found Uncle Harkness' big pistol, removed the cylinder and slipped the cartridge into one of the chambers.
I had already prepared everything in readiness; and a bundle of rifles tied up in a large blanket, and 500 rounds of ball cartridge, were unconsciously received on board as PRESENTS. I had instructed Ibrahim to accompany us as my servant, as he was better than most of the men in the event of a row; and I had given orders, that in case of a preconcerted signal being given, the whole force should swim the river, supporting themselves and guns upon bundles of papyrus rush.
From among the articles in front of him the general selected a solitary 44-caliber revolver cartridge and, holding it up, said: "What do you say to this?" "I don't know what to say. Where did it come from?" "It was found in the cloth pocket of your valise." O'Reilly frowned; then a light of understanding irradiated his frank countenance.
He was sure he saw a sudden slight movement there, and in the thrill of the moment was tempted to send a bullet into the heart of it. But he saved his cartridge. He felt the mighty importance of certainty. If he fired once and missed the advantage of his unsuspected loophole would be gone. It would be transformed into a deadly menace.
His work finished, the old man proceeded to carefully fill the empty loops of his cartridge belt and there was a grim determination on his handsome hard old face as he spun the cylinder of his ".45" to test its perfect action. Up at the hotel an ambuscade was laid into which Douglass walked unwittingly.
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