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Updated: May 28, 2025
Bud, you bring up the rear with your mediaeval rubber pistol, and I'll march beside you. If anybody, tries to interfere with us there'll be some crack-shot shooting."
Three hundred had been called for; four hundred and eighty arrived mainly Pennsylvanians, and the bulk of them crack-shot bordermen in moccasins, leggins, fringed buckskin hunting shirts, armed with the long patch-and-ball rifle, tomahawk and scalping-knife, and mounted upon the best of their horses. It was to be an earnest expedition a stroke at the heart of the Indian country.
I was second in several duels; the umpire in all disputes; and such a crack-shot myself, that fellows were shy of insulting me. As for Dobble, I took him under my protection; and he became so attached to me, that we ate, drank, and rode together every day; his father didn't care for money, so long as his son was in good company and what so good as that of the celebrated Stubbs? Heigho!
I am a man of powerful self-restraint, one of those strong, silent men, and I can curb my emotions. But I fear that Comrade Windsor's generous temperament may at any moment prompt him to start throwing ink-pots. And in Wyoming his deadly aim with the ink-pot won him among the admiring cowboys the sobriquet of Crack-Shot Cuthbert.
"Sure ye've missed it, but after all it's a most awkward bird to hit specially when ye don't pint the gun quite straight. An' the tail, too, is apt to throw even a crack-shot out so it is. Niver mind; there's plenty more where that wan came from." Thus encouraged, our sportsman reloaded and continued his progress.
Cadman Sahib cleared his throat. "All right to talk?" he asked huskily. "Sure. It will help " He cleared his throat again and inquired in an enticing tone: "You actually don't mean to use the pistol?" "I'm not a crack-shot," Skag said queerly. "You might pass it to me. I'm supposed to be " "It is bad light." "And then again, you might not," Cadman laughed softly. "I've got you, son "
"I don't think it's anything remarkable. Plowden says my brother Balder kills all the birds off every season. Balder's by way of being a crack-shot, you know. There are some pheasants, though. We saw them flying when we were out this morning." Thorpe wondered if it would be possible to consult her upon the question of apparel.
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