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"Skeap ske-eap!" up sprang a couple of English snipe before Shot's nose, and Harry cut them down, a splendid double shot, before they had flown twenty yards, just as Frank dropped the one which rose to him at the same moment. At the sound of the guns a dozen more rose hard by, and fluttering on in rapid zig-zags, dropped once again within a hundred yards the meadow was alive with them.
Would you like a dog for company? There is a litter of puppies of Shot's breed in the stable-yard. You shall have one, if you like it." "Is it like it?" asked Susan, her face lighting up, "I should be very pleased to have it. So would Georgie. That boy's fair gone on animals." "Those dogs make very good watch-dogs, though they are so gentle.
We found that the spritsail had caught in the anchor-stock in consequence of the hurry in lowering the sail and throwing anchor, but it was some time before we could discover what was the matter and get the anchor loose; it then held fast in three fathoms of water at a musket shot's distance from the reef and about as far from the shore.
Anse went for the boys." But Boyd's chin lifted an inch or two, a slight gesture to indicate the ceiling again. He brought his other hand up, and using both, cocked the Colt, that click carrying with almost a shot's sharp twang through the room. Jas' was again staring at Drew, his lips a silent snarl.
"Quick, Forester, quick!" shouted Archer; "over the wall, lad, and mark them! those are quail; I'm man enough to get this fellow by myself. Steady, lads! steady-y-y!" as they were roading on at the top of their pace. "Toho! toho-o-o, Chase; fie, for shame don't you see, sir, Shot's got him dead there under his very nose in those cat-briers.
Had they been quarrelling, silly children? He began to tremble for his dream. "Cleopatra scratched Shot's nose," said Terry, holding up the liver-coloured nose for inspection. "See, it has bled. Eileen will have it that it was Shot's fault. Of course it was not. Shot is so gentle." He stood up to meet the ladies and, swift as an arrow from the bow, he went to Stella's side. Poor Sir Shawn!
One day a stranger came to the village, who was very thin and nearly starved. So weak was he that he could not speak, but made signs for something to eat. Luckily the stranger came to Dead Shot's tent, and as there was always a plentiful supply in his lodge, the stranger soon had a good meal served him. After he had eaten and rested he told his story. "I came from a very great distance," said he.
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