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Updated: May 26, 2025
"Get into line, durn you!" shouted Joe; "an' I'll have something to say to you later, Zerubbabel Buntling." "O Lord!" muttered Lee to the other officers, most of whom were laughing. "And they expect us to beat regulars with such!" "Attention!" once more called Joe. "To the right face no I mean, shoulder firelocks first off. Now to the left face."
"Matter!" spluttered Mynheer Von Stroom; "call the troops in with their firelocks. Quick, sir. Am I to be murdered, torn to pieces, and devoured? For mercy's sake, sir, don't stare, but do something look, it's coming to the table! O dear! O dear!" continued the supercargo, evidently terrified out of his wits.
The hauberk and halberd, lance and casque, arquebuse and sword, were suspended in friendly congeries; and fragments of costly stuff swept from ceiling to floor, crushed and soiled by the heaps of rusty firelocks, cutlasses, and gauntlets thrown upon them.
At no time during this anxious journey were we ever so completely in their power, or in so defenceless a situation. It rained so hard, that our firelocks would have been of no use, and had they attacked us, we must necessarily have been slaughtered without committing the least execution upon them. Nothing, therefore, remained for us but to continue our exertions.
The second three boats had now disappeared among the trees, and Colonel Parker gave the word for the rest to advance in a body. "Look to your firelocks, lads," James said. "Whatever happens, keep perfectly cool. You at the oars, especially, sit still and be ready to obey orders."
“Wait a minute, Dimchurch. Let each man make sure that his musket is loaded.” There was a short pause, during which all firelocks were carefully examined. When he saw that all were in good order, Will said: “Now, lads, heave away.” Slowly the hatchway yielded, and with a great effort it was pushed up far enough for a man to crawl out.
It produces iron, of which the best firelocks in the east are made. It abounds in precious stones, as rubies, sapphires, cats-eyes, topazes, chrysolites, amythests, and berils. It has many civet-cats, and produces, the noblest elephants in all the east. Its rivers and shores abound in a variety of excellent fish, and it has many excellent ports fit for the largest ships.
Hurra! the moon glents ower the hills to guide us to the spoils o' Elibank! To-night we shall bring langsyne back again." There were twenty of them, stout and bold men, mounted upon light and active horses some armed with firelocks, and others with Jeddart staves; while, in addition to such weapons, every man had a good sword by his side.
But what was his surprise, when, led into Marion's presence, and the bandage taken from his eyes, he beheld in our hero, a swarthy, smoke-dried little man, with scarce enough of threadbare homespun to cover his nakedness! and in place of tall ranks, of gaily dressed soldiers, a handful of sunburnt yellow-legged militia-men; some roasting potatoes and some asleep, with their black firelocks and powder-horns lying by them on the logs!
The commission is refused; his complimentary expressions amount to nothing; the veil is too thin to impose on us; the Indians are still ravaging the frontier. They have been furnished with firelocks and powder by whom? By the governor in his traffic with them. If you, good housekeepers, will sustain me, I will assault the savages in their stronghold."
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