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Lots o' good o' your packin' around guns and cartridges, if you're goin' to waste your ammynition on the malaria in the clouds. Load agin, now, carefully, and when you shoot agin be sure to fetch something. I'll take my ramrod to the next boy that I ketch shootin' higher'n a man's head. This ain't no Fourth-o'-July business.
"Purty slouchy bizniss that, givin' these kids guns before they've had any drill at all don't know even the facin's, let alone the manual of arms," remarked Shorty doubtfully, as they marched over to the shed. "They'll be shooting holes through each others' heads and the tops o' the cars, and'll waste more ammynition than a six-mule team kin haul.
"The battery's out there yit, Si," said Shorty, as they gathered themselves up and carefully stamped out every spark of fire. "It's 'tendin' strictly to business," remarked Wes Williams. "Its ammynition don't seem to be a mite wet," added Jim Hutchinson. "There, you see, now," said the Colonel sternly. "I'll tie up by the thumbs the next man that dares scratch a match."
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