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Updated: May 21, 2025
He kept on until Major Pendelton was feeling "blue." When we camped for breakfast dinner as the Lieutenant called it. Cummings told the paymaster many a bloody tale of the lawlessness of that trail, and ended by telling him and his clerk that while I was getting breakfast ready that they had better practice up on their marksmanship. The clerk had a four-barreled little short pistol.
"'That ain't much account against a boat-hook, said one of the men, as he took one with a sharp spike from beneath the gunwale. "'Lay that down, you beggar! cried the little red-coat; and he pulled out of each side-pocket a four-barreled pistol, for there were no revolvers in them days, and the man laid down the boat-hook as quick as a flash.
The heavy four-barreled pistols were there, all right, but The money! He rummaged frantically among the bedding, and among his clothes, piled on the floor, but the leather bag was nowhere to be found. Two thousand gold obus, the price of a hundred slaves. He snatched up one of the pistols, his headache forgotten. Then he laughed and tossed the pistol down again. Of course!
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