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Updated: June 19, 2025
But the private's gun was not in working order, and the fellow escaped for the time. Before he reached the woods, whither he was going to hurry up the "boys," a Howitzer let fly at him, and at the shock of the bullet's stroke he threw his arms up in the air, and his horse bore him into the woods a corpse.
This unit includes not only the bullet's lead, but the powder and the cap which will explode it." They lacked understanding, and showed it. Mayer said, "Jerry, if you'll demonstrate." Jerry Kennedy said, "The bullet can be adapted to various weapons, however, this is one of the simplest." He pressed, one after another, a full twenty rounds into the gun's clip.
They found him half way to Elder Springs with a bullet hole in his back. The bullet was that of a rifle. Being plainsmen they had done good detective work of its kind, and had determined by the direction of the bullet's flight as evidenced by the wound that it had been fired from a point above. The only point above was the low "rim" that ran for miles down the Soda Springs Valley.
A smile as often as, or oftener than, any sign of pain, but generally no sign of either. Think of this, mourning mothers of England. Don't picture your sons as drowning out of the world racked with the red torture from the bullet's track, but just as dropping off dully to sleep, most probably with no thought of you or home, without anxiety or regret. Merciful Mauser!
One of them'd just landed his brogans on my face when I let'm have it. The bullet entered just above his knee, smashed the collarbone, where it came out, and then clipped off an ear. I guess that bullet's still going. It took more than a full-sized man to stop it. So I say, give me a good handy gat when something's doing."
When this happened, the living had no other choice than to ape the dead, lest the least movement, detected by eyes that peered without rest through loopholes in the sandbag parapets, invite a bullet's blow. Now it was midnight, and lights were flaring less frequently, even as rifle-fire had grown more intermittent ... as if many waters might quench out hate in the heart of man!
Just at the self-same point of time "Mark! mark, Frank!" shouted Archer, "mark! there are a brace of them!" and as he spoke, gliding with speed scarcely inferior to a bullet's flight upon their balanced pinions, the noble birds swept past me, so close that I could have struck them with a riding whip.
Next night was the same, and the next, and then Ted gave up hiding on the wharf for it, and sat and snoozed in the office instead. A week went by, and then another, and still there was no sign of Sam Bullet's ghost, or Joe Peel, and every morning I 'ad to try and work up a smile as I shelled out ninepence for Ted.
It is all aweary of these piping times of peace wildly eager for the glorious pomp and circumstance of war the bullet's mad hiss and the crash of steel. Civilized man is but an educated savage sooner or later his natural ferocity will demand its pound of flesh. I know not whether Deity or Devil be the author of war. All human advancement is born of strife.
Had he not flogged an Arab to death with his own hand, the day before Fielding's and Dicky's arrival, and had he not tried to get this same Arab's daughter into his harem this Selamlik Pasha! The voice of the Lost One suddenly rose shrill and excited, and he shouted at the Pasha. "Swine! swine! swine!... Kill your slaves with a kourbash if you like, but a bullet's the thing for a waler!
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