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On the breast of his coat was sewed a Moor's head, the crest of Corsica, surrounded with branches of laurel. He had also a cartridge-pouch, into which was stuck a stiletto, and on his left side a pistol was hung upon the belt of his cartridge-pouch. He had a fusee slung across his shoulder, wore no powder in his hair, but had it plaited at full length with a knot of blue ribbons at the end of it.
"Take the consequences yourself!" roared the Parson "you and your river dirties. I'll see your friends hung high as Haman yet." The other shook his head. "You won't live to see that, dear man," he said quietly, and turned away. Kit was in the cellar stripping his belt and cartridge-pouch from Blob's Grenadier. As he rose from his knees Piper hailed him. "Mr. Joy callin you, sir."
The Grenadier with set teeth and blue-black muzzle was launching forward with huge strides. Kit could hear the rattle of his cartridge-pouch flopping as he ran. Would the door open? if so, which would reach it first? "Faster, Blob, faster!" "Oi'd run faaster, if ma legs would," panted Blob, lumbering behind. He was doing his best; but he was no match for the fawn-footed gentleman, who led him.
The two guns were loaded, and one passed into the hands of the professor, who seemed as much embarrassed with it as might have been a savage of Pomotou. He also hung one of the hunting-knives to his belt, to which he had already attached his cartridge-pouch.
The alarm was given, and growlings still more violent resounded without. Formidable talons were heard tearing the bark of the sequoia. Terrible blows shook the door, which was too feeble to resist such an assault. "We must defend ourselves!" shouted Godfrey. And, with his gun in his hand and his cartridge-pouch round his waist, he took his post at one of the windows.
I could not carry it without a blanket for a pad for my shoulder, so that with my revolver and cartridge-pouch, knife, and one or two other small things on my belt, I staggered under a weight of about fifty pounds when I put the keg on my back. I only had fourteen matches.
Before he could pick himself up, three of the troopers were off their horses, and had flung themselves upon him. He was hauled roughly to his feet, his rifle snatched from his hand, and his cartridge-pouch torn away. A few yards away, Roy, his face bleeding, was the centre of another group who were disarming him in spite of his struggles. Ken glanced at his captors.
He then fastened on the leather belt, with its cartridge-pouch attached, and possessed himself of Carbajal's carbine. This completed Jim's transformation; and he flattered himself that he could now be very easily mistaken for a Peruvian soldier, which was, of course, what he desired.
I had a cartridge-pouch full of cartridges close to my tin plate, and my rifle lay alongside also. Jimmy Fitz, Perkins, Billy the black boy, and I, had just begun to eat when we heard a shot from Verney's revolver. I did not take very much notice, as he was always firing at wallaby, or birds, or anything; but on another shot following we all jumped up, and ran towards him.
The forest was so dense and high, there was no chance of getting a glimpse of the fugitives, who took all the dishes, a large box of powder, the flour we had purchased dearly to help us as far as the Chambezé, the tools, two guns, and a cartridge-pouch; but the medicine-chest was the sorest loss of all! I felt as if I had now received the sentence of death, like poor Bishop Mackenzie.
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