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"It is an extreme measure, surely," murmured Dunstan. Anstey remained silent, waiting for further particulars. "What I would call to your attention," went on Greg, "is that my roommate, old ramrod, was nearly bounced out of West Point for something he never did. I believe, and probably you all do, that Mr. Dodge played an evil and guilty part in what became nearly a tragedy."
"Yes, by gracious, quicker'n I'd kill a rattlesnake!" He placed the round bullet on the little square of greased rag at the muzzle of his rifle. "A rank traitor bone and blood of those who drove out loyal men!" he crowded the tight lead home, dashed the ramrod into place, looked to the flint.
The man dropped his ramrod into his piece to show that it was uncharged, and answered, "Judge if I could have done thee much harm all the rest are the same." Napoleon gave the word, and the old adherents, and the new, marched together on Grenoble.
English officials Deputy Commissioners even turned aside from the main road to visit him, and on those occasions he dressed himself in the uniform of ancient days, and stood up like a ramrod. 'But this shall be a great war a war of eight thousand. Kim's voice shrilled across the quick-gathering crowd, astonishing himself.
This sometimes brought us up four or five apples at once, which hung on the blade like the flock of ducks that Baron Munchausen's musket pierced with the ramrod. We were all honest boys, yet not one, not even the sons of the heads of the institute, ever thought of blaming or checking the zest for this appropriation of other people's property.
A minute postmortem examination was held some time afterward, the soldier having died by drowning, but the results were absolutely negative as regards any injury done by the passage of the ramrod. Humphreys says that a boy of eleven, while "playing soldier" with another boy, accidentally fell on a rick-stake.
"Buy!" echoed Goree. "From me?" Then he laughed harshly. "I reckon you are mistaken about that. I reckon you are mistaken about that. I sold out to you, as you yourself expressed it, 'lock, stock and barrel. There isn't even a ramrod left to sell." "You've got it; and we 'uns want it. 'Take the money, says Missis Garvey, 'and buy it fa'r and squar'." Goree shook his head.
He screws on the heel plate, the guard that protects the trigger, puts in the trigger plate, lets in the pipes to hold the ramrod, puts on the nozzle cap, and all other mountings.
Stella said that Swift could write charmingly about a broom-stick; and poor Carlyle had to write romantically about a ramrod. Compare him with Heine, who had also a detached taste in the mystical grotesques of Germany, but who saw what was their enemy: and offered to nail up the Prussian eagle like an old crow as a target for the archers of the Rhine.
This was long before he had come to the present company. At length the man he was waiting for came along. Ramrod went after him at close quarters, but the fellow was game and drew his gun. When the smoke cleared away, Ramrod had brought down his horse and winged his man right and left. The smuggler was not far behind on the shoot, for Ramrod's coat and hat showed he was calling for him.