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"What d'yer think o' them?" He pointed to a couple of muskets lying on the bench. "Are these yours?" said Tom. "Yes and no, lads. They're for me and Jacob, and we've got orders to be ready at any time to join in and help run down them as does all the mischief; but it's a sorry business, lads. Powther and shot's no use. Yow can't get shut of sperrits that ways. Good goons, aren't they?"
I had just had dinner, and was lying down on a travelling bed to rest a little after a fairly successful but fatiguing day of grouse-shooting it was somewhere about the 10th of July, and the heat was terrific.... 'I've something to tell you: all our shot's gone. I jumped off the bed. 'All gone? How's that? Why, we took pretty nearly thirty pounds with us from the village a whole bag!
He went over and joined the two ladies. "Only just in time!" he said, in rather a loud voice, as he opened the drawing-room door. He intended it as a warning, but it was apparently not necessary. Terry was sitting in a chair at one side of the fireplace with Shot's head on his knee. Miss Creagh, a cloud on her face, was in the opposite chair, caressing Cleopatra. Sir Shawn's heart sank.
Now suppose they are up the canon at this moment!" For a moment he paused and dwelt upon this hypothesis. He proceeded again. "Well, let them; I'll ride on. Cibolo can beat the rocks a shot's range ahead of me. If they're ambushed there without him finding them, they'll be sharper fellows than I take them to be; and I don't consider them flats, either, the scoundrels!
God bless you, Tony; and, when you pray, don't forget me;" and, striding across the room, Job Malden was gone. By the gate he tarried a moment, put his arms round Shot's shaggy neck and kissed him, sprang on Bess' back, gave one last look at Pine Tree Ranch, and was off. There, in a silent, awed group, they stood in the door-yard and watched him go through the pasture gate.
"I'm pretty handy with this old gun, partner. And on you, just now, they ain't any reason why I should take my time or any chances, when it comes to shooting." Unconsciously Cartwright moistened his white lips, and his eyes grew big again. "Except that the minute you shoot, you're a dead one, Sinclair." "Me? Oh, no. When a gun's heard they'll run to the room where the shot's been fired.
This was soon done; inasmuch as the Commodore is not exactly one to dally in such matters; and when his locks ticked, as he drew the hammers to half-cock, Chase quietly dismounted from his perch, and Shot's head and fore-paws appeared above the barrier; but not till Archer's hand gave the expected signal did the stanch brutes move on.
She dragged Clo to the back of the room, out of sight from the window, and awaited further commands. "Now," Chuff said, "if we're spotted, this is a suicide see? She stole your pearls, and when she was caught she killed herself." "But the shot's in her shoulder and she ain't dead. She's opening her eyes," Kit objected. "She's got to be dead," Chuff decreed. "I know how to fix the bullet business.
By the time he was secured and put back in his proper quarters the young people were out of sight. "Shot's a good dog," Patsy Kenny was wont to observe in his slow way, "an' his father before him was a good dog. Yet I wouldn't be sayin' but what ould Shot, the grandfather, wasn't the pick o' the basket."
Peaslee's reflections rose in a strophe of hope and fell in an antistrophe of despair. "'T ain't likely it hurt him any just bird shot," said Hope. "Bird shot's mighty irritatin' specially to a wrathy fellow," said Despair. And alternating thus, his thoughts ran on: "Bird shot'll show I didn't have any serious intent; but mebbe a piece of the marble struck him.
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