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In 1851 Minié rifles supplanted in the British army the old smoothbore musket or "Brown Bess," with which at ranges above 200 yards it was difficult to hit a target 11 feet square. This change led quickly to the rifling of heavy ordnance as well.
The allurement proved enticing, and presently he hooked a fish. Tim gallantly handed the rod to Bess Thornton. "Pull him in," he said. "I've caught lots of 'em. You can land this one." The girl seized the rod, with a little cry of delight, and lifted the fish out of water.
To the great surprise of the spectators, Queen Bess is gaining steadily inch by inch, until she passes those before her, even the General, and there is but a ribbon of daylight between herself and the great Robin Adair. The crowd goes wild with intense excitement. Nerves are thrilling as down the stretch dashes the racers almost with the rapidity of lightning.
Draw up in the quarry draw up, thou king of the Greeks; draw into the quarry, Agamemnon, or I shall never be able to pass you. Welcome home, Cousin Duke welcome, welcome, black-eyed Bess. Thou seest, Marina duke that I have taken the field with an assorted cargo, to do thee honor. Monsieur Le Quoi has come out with only one cap; Old Fritz would not stay to finish the bottle; and Mr.
"It seems a shame " "Now, don't be nonsensical," said Bess practically. "Just think how pretty a chicken is; and yet you do love chicken, Grade." "Softly," warned Rhoda. "We do not know how far our voices may carry." Then she gave the party the simple instructions necessary, and they pulled the ponies out from behind the brush and rocks.
Say, air it all fixed about Queen Bess?" "Fixed?" cried the gallant horseman. "Well I should remark! Queen Bess is sold and paid for and a draft for the assessment forwarded to the Company. Inside of a year Frank will have the income of a prince." "All," said Miss Alathea, "owing to that mysterious jockey who disappeared immediately after the race. Oh, I'd like to kiss that boy!"
But if she was mine I'd put her to work a coal-cart for six months; that would larn her." "I will ride her," said Miss Clifford, calmly; "her or none." "Saddle her, George," said Walter, resignedly. "I'll ride Goliah. Black Bess sha'n't plead a bad example. Goliah is as meek as Moses, Miss Clifford. He is a gigantic mouse." "I'd as lieve ride of a dead man," said the old groom. "Mr.
But to go away with him so, without sanction of law or of clergy; she, Bess Landor, who was a wife . The hands on her shoulders tightened insistently, the compelling face drew nearer. "Answer me, Bess," demanded a tense voice; "don't keep me in suspense. Will you go?" With the motion of a captured wild thing, the girl arose, drew back until she was free. "Don't," she pleaded. "Don't hurry me so.
"Have you anything more in the line of food to give away?" demanded the conductor. "Not a crumb," sighed Bess. "By the time the cannibals arrive at this desert island we'll all be too thin to tempt them to a banquet." "But there may be something on the train with which to feed that poor doggie," insisted Nan.
"Well, put a better name to it," challenged Bess. For a third time the eerie cry rang out. The noise completely silenced Rhoda for the moment. Nan said, with more apparent confidence than she really felt: "One thing, it doesn't seem to come nearer. But it gives me the shakes." "It can't be that terrible wind blowing into the cavern by some hole, can it?" queried Bess.
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