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Updated: June 8, 2025
My sporting brother and the armoury I attend him on his shooting expeditions Adventure with Golden Plover A morning after Wild Duck Our punishment I learn to shoot My first gun My first wild duck My ducking tactics My gun's infirmities Duck-shooting with a blunderbus Ammunition runs out An adventure with Rosy-bill Duck Coarse gunpowder and home-made shot The war danger comes our way We prepare to defend the house The danger over and my brother leaves home.
I have seen late-imported guns of seven pounds, and not above twenty-six inches long, with eleven and even ten gauge calibres! you might as well shoot with a blunderbus at once!" "They would tell at cock in close summer covert," answered A .
"When Blunderbus put this enchantment on me, do you suppose he got a blackboard and a piece of chalk and gave me a lecture on the diet and habits of the common tortoise, before showing me out of the front gate? No, he simply turned me into the form of a tortoise and left my mind and soul as it was before.
"'Mesilf does admire the best, Av alll that's undher the sun, To stand faciu' the friend av me sowl, Wid blunderbus, pistol, or gun. The word av command it is given, The wenpon we both av us raises, Afther which sure the one laves for home, Aa' off goes the other to blazes!"
I am willing that they should go, only you can hardly blame me for hesitating a little, as this will be the first time either one has been away from home over night; and besides, Peace is such a blunderbus, I rather dread to let her go anywhere for fear she will get into trouble." "Now you oughtn't to feel that way at all," cried Frances gaily.
But, for all that, this good lady hoped some day to see things come round as she would like to bring them. "No wonder that we like her son so much," said Faith when they had done waving handkerchiefs at the great yellow coach going slowly up the hill, with its vast wicker basket behind, and the guard perched over it with his blunderbus; "he takes after his mother in so many ways.
Beauty rushed up to him and, having explained the situation rapidly, made the necessary introduction. "Charmed," said the Tortoise. "You can't miss the castle; it's the only one near here, and Blunderbus is sure to be at home. I need not tell you how grateful I shall be if you kill him. Though I must say," he added, "it puzzles me to think how you are going to do it."
Swiftly they sped down the corridor, and had almost reached the open air, when suddenly there was a dull rumble behind them, and they were caught on a wave of pressure that hurled them along at terrific speed. In a flash they sped into the open air, the great tunnel with its thick walls and flared opening acting like a gigantic blunderbus, with the ship as its bullet.
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