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There he made himself a bed with blankets and pillows that he brought from above and lay down amid arms. The gunroom was certainly well stocked. It held repeating rifles and fowling-pieces, large and small, and revolvers. One big breech-loader had the weight of an elephant rifle, and there were also swords, bayonets and weapons of ancient type. But John looked longest at the big rifle.
"Oh, no, Mother it is so old and out of date, I should be laughed at. I might just as well take an arquebus or a crossbow." "Is not a gun a very expensive thing?" "Why, you may make it so, of course; but I don't want that. I have been studying the Field, and I can get a good central-fire breech-loader for £10."
The old Prince came into his son's room in the morning and found him disconsolately looking over his guns, for the sake of an occupation. "Well, Giovanni," he said, "you have time to reflect upon your future conduct. What! are you going upon a shooting expedition?" "I wish I could. I wish I could find anything to do," answered Giovanni, laying down the breech-loader and looking out of the window.
"I think I'll take the breech-loader, sir," replied the other, suiting the action to the word and proceeding to examine the lock of one of the Martini-Henrys, which seemed to be an old acquaintance of his, for he loaded the chamber much quicker than I could manage my new acquisition; "and I don't believe you could do better than hand the other to Rooney, as you suggested.
There was a big army pistol, of Central European origin and in abominable condition, among a row of fine multi-shot flintlocks. Multi-shot ... Stephen Gresham had mentioned an Elisha Collier flintlock revolver. It wasn't there. It should be hanging about where this post-Napoleonic German thing was. There was no Hall breech-loader, either, but there was a dilapidated old Ketland.
The truth is, although I had been for some days wavering upon the brink of these conclusions in a quiet way, I found the old keen ardor of the sportsman still burning too strongly, and I had started out with a breech-loader, intent upon doing much of the Góndwana route gun in hand.
Rather an awkward place for cavalry, should there be any infantry lurking in ambush, watching to give them a hot reception. I have said that Arthur was thoroughly armed; besides his two revolvers and sabre, he had his double-barreled tiger-rifle, a breech-loader of the newest pattern, which had only lately been introduced into India.
Such a rifle should be a breech-loader, as the advantage of loading quickly while on horseback is incalculable. Hunting-knives should be of soft steel, similar to butchers' knives; but one principal knife to be worn daily should be of harder steel, with the back of the blade roughed and case-hardened like a butcher's steel, for sharpening other knives when required.
It is a singular thing that during those twenty-five years of incessant fighting the material and methods of warfare made so little progress. So far as I know, there was no great change in either between 1789 and 1805. The breech-loader, heavy artillery, the ironclad, all great advances in the art of war, have been invented in time of peace.
"Reardon is going to lend me his double breech-loader, central fire, number twelve." Barkins gave his leg a sharp slap. "We're going up the river; plenty of sport up there among the marshes." "Going to walk?" said Barkins. "Oh no; we're to have a crew and one of the cutters." "Don't you believe him, Barkins, it's all gammon. The little humbug can't deceive me."
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