Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: May 12, 2025
"Lanpher," said Racey without preliminary, "I want to serve notice on you here and now that if I catch you within one mile of Moccasin Spring you come a-shooting because I will." Lanpher's hand remained motionless on the desktop. Then the man picked up a pencil and began to tap it on the wood. He licked his lips cat-fashion. "Is that a threat or a promise?" he asked.
When you arrive in British East Africa, a-shooting bent, you will hear of Newland and Tarlton so often that you will think they own the country. Mr. Newland met us in Mombasa, and through his agents sent all of our London equipment of tents and guns and ammunition and food up to Nairobi.
Indeed, sir, if I drew blade, if I as much as raised a finger, both sides would come swarming all over us rebels a-looting and a-shooting, Indians whooping off my cattle, firing my barns, scalping my tenants rebels at heart every one, and I'd not care tuppence who scalped 'em but that they pay me rent!" He clinched his fat fists and beat the air angrily. "I'm lord of this manor!" he bawled.
Still he throve and grew strong, so that when his brothers went out shooting he begged to be allowed to go out also. 'How can you go a-shooting? wept his mother, who did nothing but fret because her son was but half-a-son; 'you are only half-a-boy; how can you hold your crossbow? 'Then let me go and play at shooting, replied the prince, nothing daunted.
"Nothing doing," drawled Frisco, and tossed him over the railing on to the heads of his followers below. They carried Bannister into the open air, for his head had struck the newel-post in his descent. This gave the defense a few minutes respite. "They're going to come a-shooting next time," remarked Denver. "Just as soon as he comes back from bye-low land you'll see things hum."
They say 'self-preservation is the first law of nature, and I guess that's right; but sometimes when the show is over and I see them fellows with their hair plastered back, smoking cigarettes in a holder long enough to reach from here to Harlem, and a bank-roll that would bust my pocket and turn my head, I feel as if I'd like to get a gun and go a-shooting around this old town."
He was that scared when this here gigantic ruffian stopped him I just happened to be a-setting in among the cedar-bushes at the time, smoking a seegar and looking on sort of casual he couldn't do nothing more'n yell out he wasn't going to shoot, and not to murder him; and then down he jumped from the box me a-smoking away looking at him, and this here ruffian a-shooting his Winchester across the top of the coach to where he said he thought he seen a jack-rabbit and cut out the near wheeler; and then he scrambled up anyhow on that mule's back, and away he went down the barranca as hard as hell!"
We want you for that Squaw Creek raid, and we're going to have you. You done enough damage. Better surrender peaceable, and we'll promise to take you back to jail. What say?" "Gimme five minutes to think it over," demanded the Texan. "All right, five minutes. But you want to remember that it's all off with you if you don't give up. Billy Faulkner's dead, and we'll sure come a-shooting."
'What's that? And when I told him it was the agent, he flapped his two hands down on the chair arms each side of him and went to rockin' up and down. I said the agent was just a temptation to the boys to be gay right along, and they'd keep a-shooting.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking