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The bow-string consists of from twelve to eighteen small lines of three-sinew sinnet, having a loose twist, and with a separate becket of the same size for going over the knobs at the end of the bow. We tried their skill in archery by getting them to shoot at a mark for a prize, though with bows in extremely bad order, on account of the frost, and their hands very cold.
And after a while, becoming convinced that they could not get at me, and being too far gone to shoot with any accuracy, they tumbled off the poop swearing to serve me in a hundred horrible ways when they caught me, and fell again to drinking and quarrelling amongst themselves.
"It said something about being dead and about being buried." "Yes, and then it uttered a hideous laugh," said Ike Akley. "I shall never forget that -it was awful, and it seemed to go right through a fellow." "Why didn't you shoot at it?" asked Snap. "That is what I should have done." "Humph! I guess if you saw that ghost you'd be paralyzed," said Carl Dudder.
One of his men was seized, but, retaining his presence of mind when dragged to the bottom, he struck the monster with his javelin and escaped, bearing the marks of the reptile's teeth on his thigh. The doctor's men had never before used firearms, and, proving bad shots, came to him for "gun medicine" to enable them to shoot better.
"Yes; there is great fun in that, for they knock the boats over when they charge from below." "Can you swim?" "Yes." "So can I. And would you like to shoot buffalo?" "Yes, if you will go." "At night, then, I will send my keepers to look out for them.
"You carry your impudent messages yourself, or tell the Doctor," said Mercer sharply. "What?" cried the keeper, scowling at us. "I say, you take your impudent messages yourself. You know you daren't shoot at him." "Oh, daren't I? I'll let him see." "It's against the law, and your master's a magistrate. You know you daren't. What would he say?"
"I'm not on the shoot to-day," said I. "Well, the devil go with you for me," says he. "The same to you," says I. But we stuck just the way we were; no fear of either of us moving. Case laughed. "We can't stop here all day, though," said he. "Don't let me detain you," says I. He laughed again. "Look here, Wiltshire, do you think me a fool?" he asked. "More of a knave, if you want to know," says I.
He felt his hair rise stiff under his hat. And at the same instant a hot wrath rushed over him, madness to fight, to give back blow for blow. Just then several of the Indians fired. He heard the sharp cracks, then the spats of bullets striking the ground; he saw the little streaks of dust in front of him. Then the whistle of lead. That made him shoot in return.
"That's just what I do mean," retorted Miss Greeby daringly, "and if he does, Garvington will shoot him. He said so." "He said nothing of the sort," cried Lady Garvington, angrily rising. "Well, he meant it. I saw him looking at Agnes. And we know that Sir Hubert is as jealous as Othello. Garvington is on guard I suppose, and "
'Where else did your father keep papers? he hisses fiercely, still threatening me with the gun. "I am too frightened to speak. But at last I am able to say, 'I I don't know! Again he threatens me. 'As God is my judge, I cry, 'I don't know. It is fearful. Will he shoot me? "Thank heaven! At last he believes me. But such a look of foiled fury I have never seen on any human face before.
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