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Updated: June 5, 2025
They were thousands iv r-rounds iv catridges f'r ivry rig'mint, and all th' rig'mints had to do was to write f'r thim. Th' navy had taken Manila an' Cervera's fleet, an' th' ar-rmy had taken Sandago an' th' yellow fever. Th' war is over, an' peace wanst more wags her wings over th' counthry. Pine scantlings is quoted sthrong. Ivrywhere is peace an' contint.
"I got another, so you just subside a lot," commanded Alfred, recocking his six-shooter. The stranger lay staring at him in astonishment. "Thought you was busted on catridges!" he cried. "You-all may as well know," snapped Alfred, "that's long as I'm an officer of this yere district, I'm a sheriff first and an Injin-fighter afterward." "What the hell!" wondered the road-agent, still in a daze.
"I shot all my catridges tryin' to bring some one out on a pony," sez the kid, drowsily, an' then he dozes off again. We were only a mile from the ranch house; it was again the wind an' it wasn't much use to waste ammunition, but I finally got out my gun an' begun to shoot at intervals. "What the deuce you makin' that racket for?" grunted the kid at the third shot.
You wouldn't kill many coons if you had to run back to the house for your powder and lead after you saw the coon before you could shoot him." "Well, you can't have no catridges now," said Si decisively. "We're not likely to see any coons before we git to Murfreesboro. Then we'll see how things look further down the road. Take off your bayonets, all o' you, and pile into them rear cars there.
But we see them almost as quick as he did, an' Gid and me set down on him suddently, as he was lying on the roof, and took away all his catridges, and give 'em around to the rest o' the boys, one a-piece." "Are they all gone now?" "Yes, sir; every one shot away," answered Harry regretfully. Si looked through several of the boxes and at some of the guns to assure himself of this.
One of you walk down in front and the other behind and give each man two packages of catridges. You boys open the packages and put the catridges in your catridgeboxes, bullet-end up, and the caps in your capboxes." The boys followed his directions with nervous eagerness, inspired by his words and manner, and then fixed their anxious gaze upon him for further impartment.
I guess we didn't count as we ougther've done on the goin' forward o' the train, because we all struck much nearer than we expected to that nigger on a mule, and scared his mule nigh out o' his skin. We really didn't intend no harm." "Where did you git catridges?" demanded Si. "Why, that box that Alf Russell got was half full.
They snatched up their guns and hurried into line on the spot indicated, looking into each other's countenances and into that of Si's for an explanation of what was up. "Mackall and Joslyn," called Shorty from the car, "come here and take this box of catridges." "Now," said Si, as they did this, "Joslyn, you and Mackall issue those to the boys.
"You little brats," said Si; "didn't you hear my orders about firin' before we started? If another boy shoots without my orders I'll tie him up by the thumbs! Got any more catridges? Give me every one of 'em." The boys all protested that every cartridge was gone.
"Well, maybe you're right, but I'll be hanged ef I think it's hardly far and squar and gentlemanly to wet a feller's catridges that-a-way." "I had to," said Albert, trembling. "If I hadn't, you or I would have been a murderer before morning." "Maybe so, but they ain't nothin else to be done.
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