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I suspect it to have been shut most of the time, for I observe a good many elderly people adjust the organ of vision to any optical instrument in that way. I suppose it is from the instinct of protection to the eye, the same instinct as that which makes the raw militia-man close it when he pulls the, trigger of his musket the first time.
"Perhaps there's a head in it already," suggested Philips, "there was a hand just now the other may have followed." "By jingo I'll try," returned Green, "I'd give a week's grog to be able to prick a feller with this playthin'" So saying, he knelt upon the floor, and holding his musket in a horizontal position, a few inches above it, he gave a furious thrust into the aperture.
Bunny, and she thought how thankful she ought to be that her little rabbit didn't have to shoulder a musket. "Well, I'm glad he's going," said Billy Bunny. "He can shoot at something else now besides little rabbits." Old Mother Magpie ruffled her feathers. "Well, if I had a boy like you I'd teach him not to glory over another person's grief," and then she flew away.
I scarcely need describe the various difficulties and dangers to which I was exposed in such a journey; however, I still had with me my musket, and as my ammunition was not quite exhausted, I depended upon the woods themselves to supply me with food.
"All the time, the devil had me by the throat, swinging his tommyhawk about my head, I saw ye dancing up and down in the heavens, instead of being on your marrow bones on the common." "And didn't I want to do it?" rejoined the first speaker. "Ask Tom Winkler here, if the captain didn't swear he'd cut the soul out of my body if I even offered so much as to touch the trigger of my musket."
So don't throw away your ammunition. Every bullet you send must tell!" "Well, we can but sell our scalps as dearly as possible," interposed Collins, who had again loaded, and was now in the act of raising and supporting his, musket against the tree. "But look see how the fellows are stealing off?" "Don't fire, then, don't fire," hastily enjoined the corporal. "If they will go quietly, let them.
In this last charge I received a rude blow from a stout fellow on foot with the butt end of his musket which perfectly stunned me, and fetched me off from my horse; and had not some near me took care of me, I had been trod to death by our own men.
Rushing into the cabin where Landless had already waked the women, he groped for his tinder box, and with a steady hand struck a light and fired a pine knot which he stuck into a block of wood pierced to receive it; then jerked from the wall his musket and powder horn. "You both have guns," he said coolly. "Good! We'll die fighting."
I was dazzled by the handful of silver they offered me; for its sake I bartered away my golden freedom. Since that day I carry the musket.
The soldier struggled with him for his musket, and wrested it from him; on which the thief let go the knapsack, and attempted to make off; but when he heard the soldier cock his piece, expecting to be instantly shot, he threw himself down on the road and roared out in the most pitiable manner.
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