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Updated: June 30, 2025
"Red" Watt, of the "X L," would no more ride the range across the sun-kissed prairie, while the stern old sergeant, still grim of jaw but growing dim of eye, bore his right arm in a rudely improvised sling made from a cartridge-belt, and crept about sorely racked with pain, dragging a shattered limb behind him.
The partially emptied cartridge-belt was made to do duty as a casket, and it is safe to say that no similar contrivance was ever laden with a tithe of the riches that particular one held. "Ah," reflected the young man again and again, "if only the Professor and Long were here to help me!"
Jimmy was a cowboy with cartridge-belt and pistols. Lucy and Barbara were Night and Morning, with stars on their heads. Mr. Sanford was Uncle Jonathan. Mr. Hale was an Indian chief. Jimmy's debts were more than paid, and a happier boy was not to be found in the state of California. After this there were plenty of free entertainments on the tailings.
That's your rifle by the tree. Put this cartridge-belt on and buckle it real tight; if you leave it loose, when you start to gallop it will shake up and down, and shake the soul out of you. Come, Paddy, what are you riding?" "I'm going to ride the boco." "I wouldn't if I was you. He's all right to race up to a buffalo, but that blind eye of his'll fetch him to grief some day. Ride the old grey."
The troopers who had reduced their clothing to a minimum, for their sole vestment consisted of a forage-cap and cartridge-belt wound along as noiselessly as Lizzie; but we poor whites with our flannel shirts and other complicated paraphernalia that custom would not permit us to dispense with in the matter-of-fact way they were laid aside by our sable allies were getting into continual trouble; now hitched up helplessly by a lawyer vine, whose sharp prickles, like inverted fish-hooks, rent the skin; now crawling unsuspiciously against a tree-ants' nest, an indiscretion that the fierce little insects visited with immediate and most painful punishment; or else, becoming aware, by unmistakable symptoms, that we were trying to force a passage through a stinging tree-shrub.
After the first three minutes every man had stripped as though for a wrestling match, throwing off all his impedimenta but his cartridge-belt and canteen. Even then the sun handicapped their strength cruelly.
He had on a big sombrero, and under a fold of his serape Tonio could see a cartridge-belt and the handle of a revolver. "It's the Tall Man that Father and Pedro were talking to in front of the pulque shop," whispered Tonio. Tita was so frightened that she shook like a leaf and her teeth chattered. Pretty soon the Tall Man spoke. "The others ought to be here soon," he said. "They'll see the fire.
Lying in an irregular oval that plainly told of a vanished cartridge-belt, a string of cartridges trailed on the concrete floor. "H-m-m-m! Just for an experiment, let's see!" murmured the engineer. Already he had slipped in a charge. "Steady, Beatrice!" he cautioned, and, pointing down the passage, pulled trigger. Flame stabbed the half-dark and the crashing detonation rang in their ears.
Silently she went into the house, to return with a heavy cartridge-belt and gun-filled sheath and a long rifle; these she handed to him, and as he buckled on the belt she stood before him in silent eloquence. "Jane," he said, in gentler voice, "don't look so. I'm not going out to murder your churchman. I'll try to avoid him and all his men. But can't you see I've reached the end of my rope?
Tom said nothing. He was steadily observing the approaching sleds. They came on rapidly. Abe was holding the golden nuggets in his gloved hands. "Get the guns! Where's your electric rifle, Tom?" cried Mr. Damon. "I don't believe we'll need the guns just yet," answered the young inventor, slowly. "Bless my cartridge-belt! Why not?" demanded the eccentric man.
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