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By the way, boy, you were shot at. Were you hit?" "No," I answered. "But I got jolly near it. The bullet went just by me." "Ah," he said. "Take this. You'll have to be armed in future." He handed me a beautiful little double-barrelled pocket pistol. "Be careful," he said. "It's loaded. Put it in your pocket. You musn't be seen carrying arms here. That would never do." "Boy," said the captain.
He was walking his horse quietly along a sort of path that skirted a piece of thicket when he heard a tremendous crashing of trees, and looking up saw a troop of fifty or sixty elephants dashing away through a grove of mapani-trees. Tom at once put spurs to his horse, unslung his large-bore double-barrelled gun, and coming close up to a cow-elephant, sent a ball into her behind the shoulder.
His fellow-clerk, an amateur in hunting, had just had two days' absence, and inflicted upon him, in an unmerciful manner, his stories of slaughtered partridges, and dogs who pointed, so wonderfully well, and of course punctuated all this with numerous Pan-Pans! to imitate the report of a double-barrelled gun.
"Where?" said the passenger, a curly-headed Creole, about twenty years old. "Those small birds," replied the captain, walking forward. The passenger went down below, and soon returned with his double-barrelled fowling-piece. "I have long wished to shoot one of those birds," said he; "and now they are so near, I think I may get a shot."
Taking the double-barrelled gun of which I have spoken, I called Mavovo and handed it to him, saying: "It is yours, O true prophet." "Yes, my father," he answered, "it is mine for a little while, then perhaps it will be yours again." The words struck me, but I did not care to ask their meaning. Somehow I wanted to hear no more of Mavovo's prophecies.
I don't know what quick pleasure flickered into the hope that she would at last see me. She did see me: she suddenly bent forward to take up the little double-barrelled ivory glass that rested on the edge of the box and to all appearance fix me with it. I smiled from my place straight up at the searching lenses, and after an instant she dropped them and smiled as straight back at me.
The stout man carried two double-barrelled pistols, and upon one of the fingers of his right hand wore a brass ring with a murderous-looking iron protuberance upon it, which, when driven forward by his powerful arm, was probably more dangerous than a billy. Upon the younger man we found no arms at all, and his hip pocket contained nothing but a small handbook on civil engineering.
Nothing revolutionary, I hope! No no attempted interference with the magistrates? 'Deedles, the banker, gasped the Secretary. 'Deedles Brothers who was to have been here to-day high in office in the Goldsmiths' Company 'Not stopped! exclaimed the Alderman, 'It can't be! 'Shot himself. 'Good God! 'Put a double-barrelled pistol to his mouth, in his own counting house, said Mr.
It was on the very next day after he had eased his mind by arriving at this decision, that the Major, sitting at his breakfast, saw an apparition so tremendous and wonderful in Miss Tox's little drawing-room, that he remained for some time rooted to his chair; then, rushing into the next room, returned with a double-barrelled opera-glass, through which he surveyed it intently for some minutes.
Barrere alone had no sword. His hand was constantly playing with a little double-barrelled pistol, which he continually cocked and uncocked, the fellow of which lay immediately before him.
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