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With many of them experience in the use of arms had been limited to a snowball, a pop-gun, or a bird-sling; and they were not only dubious of their marksmanship, but fearful that their rifles in the rough and tumble of war's realities would "kick" to pieces their 'prentice shoulders. The authorities, however, could not allow ammunition to be wasted; it might all be needed for actual warfare.

"Well, you said put my things on the bed for you to pack an' I've put them on the bed, an' now you say " "I meant clothes." "Oh, clothes!" scornfully. "I never thought of clothes." "Well, you can't take any of these things, anyway." William hastily began to defend his collection of treasures. "I mus' have the pop-gun 'cause you never know.

When grammar-school boys and girls are on a picnic, a thing needn't be very witty or very funny to make them laugh. From the ease with which this party exploded into laughter, it may be perceived that in spite of the high words and the pop-gun firing, there was no deep-seated ill-humor among them. "To Crow Roost and be done with it!" said Dick. "All right," assented several voices.

And if I said, 'I do wish, Sylvia' instead of, 'I wish to goodness, Sylvia ..." She had said it all straight to the author. "I suppose," he said, sneering very hard, "that your own personal knowledge of the way society women talk is what leads you to believe that your phrases are better than mine?" "Yes," said Rose, serenely matter-of-fact, "it is." Sarcasm is an uncertain sort of pop-gun.

The practical lesson, 'don't shoot at your brother's nose, would never have been impressed, had not mamma, on coming in, found Maurice and his pop-gun nearly equally black, and by gradual unfolding of cause and effect, learnt his forgotten offence.

Papa had the upper conservatory for a robber-cave, and stood there keeping guard with your pop-gun; and he wouldn't let the servants go by without a kiss, unless they showed a written pass from us! Miss McFadden called in the middle of it, but she said she wouldn't come in, as papa seemed to be enjoying himself so. Boaler has given warning, but we can't think why.

He held his coat tightly round him, clasping something inside it. "I expect that's one," said William casually. They watched the figure out of sight. Suddenly William's eyes shone. "Let's stalk him an' catch him," he said excitedly. "Come on. Let's take some weapons." He seized his pop-gun from a corner.

It was in vain that we or rather my opponent wrestled with the difficulty and tried to find a substitute for the deadly and discriminating pop-gun. It was all of no use.

But it was only a music-hall song after all, and to put it in competition with Luther's mighty hymn would be like putting a pop-gun against a 12-inch howitzer. The thunder of Luther's hymn has come down through four centuries, and it will go on echoing through the centuries till the end of time. It is like the march of the elements to battle, like the heaving of mountains and the surge of oceans.

A little behind went Connoway, in the same manner holding a "bourtree" pop-gun which he had just been fashioning for some lucky callant of his acquaintance. Almost for the first time in his life Boyd Connoway had all the humour to himself. Nobody laughed at his imitation of Officer Jocky's pompous ways. They would do it afterwards in the safety of their own dwellings and about the winter fire.