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I never knowd preaching come into a settlement but it made game scarce, and raised the price of gunpowder; and thats a thing thats not as easily made as a ramrod or an Indian flint.
He stuck these in the ground, on the opposite sides of the fire. "There," he said, "you can lay the ramrod on these forks, and all you have got to do is to give it a turn occasionally." "How long do you suppose these things want cooking?" "Not above five minutes, I should think.
He would report at the earliest hour possible. From room to room in cadet barracks flew the news. "Now, how could a fellow be so careless as to fall off a moving train?" demanded Lewis. "Old ramrod may have been shaken up a heap in the game," hinted Anstey. "Prescott isn't the sort of chap to tell us every time he feels a trifle dizzy or experiences a nervous twitch.
"Having offended a goddess, I don't wish to be struck dead by inviting her wrath." "Pah! I've no patience with y'r ramrod independence! Bend a stiff neck, or you'll break a sore heart! Ride ahead, I tell you, you young mule!" and he brought a smart flick across my broncho.
"These Injuns must hev bin huntin' 'em, and we might chase 'em all day without gittin' a shot. So we'll just tie our horses in thet chaparral down there, out of sight, and then we'll call 'em up." We dismounted, and securing our horses, followed Jerry. He removed the ramrod from his rifle, and tied to one end of it an old-fashioned, red bandana handkerchief.
Then the conjurer took a big pistol with a trumpet-shaped barrel out of 'is box, and arter putting in a charge o' powder picked up the pieces o' watch and rammed them in arter it. We could hear the broken bits grating agin the ramrod, and arter he 'ad loaded it 'e walked round and handed it to us to look at.
Lay it on the inside of the leg, just below where you have cut the trousers. "Now put a bandage round and round, as tightly as you can do it. That is right. "Now take the ramrod of one of my pistols, put it through the bandage, and then twist it. You need not be afraid of hurting me; my leg is quite numbed, at present. That is right. "Put another bandage on, so as to hold the ramrod in its place.
While reloading, the other daringly came out, seized his companion by one of his legs, and before we could arrive at the hole, had drawn him completely out of reach, although we tried to twist him out with a ramrod. There was a feeling in this act a something human, which raised the animals in my estimation; and never after did I attempt to kill one of them, except when driven by extreme hunger.
In the faint light of the fire his eyes burned like coals and there was a thick black stain around his mouth. The hand in which he had held his ramrod was of a dark rust colour, as if the stain of the battle had seared into the skin. A smell of hot powder still hung about his clothes.
This sporting gun was, I afterwards found, a common weapon. The ramrod, for pressing down the charge, was home-made and cut from a tree. The barrel was rust-eaten. There was only a strip of cotton as a carrying strap. The second man had an old Korean army rifle, antiquated, and a very bad specimen of its time. The third had the same.
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