cartridge-hopper

Updated: May 12, 2025

Then the slow progress recommenced, to be varied with more shots, more shoutings, the steady clack and kick of the machine guns, and a final difficulty with a half-lifted rail ere the train came under the protection of the roaring camp at Tanai-el-Hassan. 'Now, you see why it takes an hour and a half to fetch her through, said the subaltern, unshipping the cartridge-hopper above his pet gun.

Rudyard Kipling - The Light That Failed