g-g-g-g-guns

Updated: October 15, 2025

'Bout twenty minutes later, just as we were hauling up the anchor and going to sail up to the village, Spook sung out that there were three dories coming down, all full of men with pitchforks " "And g-g-g-g-guns!" "He said, 'They're onto us, they've heard about our stealing this boat! I put her about quick, and it was mighty lucky there was a breeze. Ten minutes before, it was almost a dead calm.

Edmund Lester Pearson - The Voyage of the Hoppergrass