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Updated: May 9, 2025
These bars, foreshortened from where I stood, looked like a row of gun-barrels in an armory rack. "That girl a prisoner?" I asked the Warden. I didn't believe it. I knew, of course, that it couldn't be. I instantly divined that she had come to comfort some brother or father, or lover, perhaps, and had brought the baby with her because there was no place to leave it at home.
A raised quarter-deck at the stern held more soldiers, the sunlight flashing merrily upon their armor and their gun-barrels; as they neared, the English could hear plainly the cracks of the whips, and the yells as of wild beasts which answered them; the roll and rattle of the oars, and the loud "Ha!" of the slaves which accompanied every stroke, and the oaths and curses of the drivers; while a sickening musky smell, as of a pack of kenneled hounds, came down the wind from off those dens of misery.
I own I was moved at the chance of my getting away. "Don't skip! Explain yourself. Do you mean to say that this slip of paper will help us? What does it mean?" "Read it aloud! Read it aloud! I beg and I pray you to read it aloud." I did so. Gunga Dass listened delightedly, and drew an irregular line in the sand with his fingers. "See now! It was the length of his gun-barrels without the stock.
She saw the warriors busy filing at their gun-barrels shortening the guns to scarce a yard of length. This was a curious thing to do. When she went back to the post she spoke about it. "That," said the blacksmith, "explains why those fellows have been borrowing all my files and hack-saws. They wouldn't tell me what for. Something's brewing."
It was so before the battle; it is not more cheerful to-day, when, as you ride along, you see fragments of shell, rotting knapsacks, rusty gun-barrels, bleached bones, and grinning skulls.... Into this jungle," continues the same writer, "General Hooker penetrated. It was the wolf in his den, ready to tear any one who approached. A battle there seemed impossible.
There's some that see too much when they're looking over their own gun-barrels. Don't be one of that kind. Don't ever kill too many bears at a shot." After that, in the Linley district, a man who lied was said to be killing too many bears at a shot. Good thoughts spread with slow but sure contagion. There were some who understood the teacher.
Upon receipt of the order consenting to his march, he cut the telegraph wires to the north, then he burned his bridges, tore up the railroad that connected him with the West, and, with his army reduced to its actual available fighting strength of 60,000 men, with banners streaming, gun-barrels glistening in the sun, bands playing, and the men singing lustily "Glory, glory, hallelujah!"
"Good heavens, man," he cried, "you have been in the wars. Did those scoundrels attack you, then? Are you hurt?" "No," said Dick, sinking into a chair, and trying to speak with his customary nonchalance, "I am not injured just a wee bit tired that is all." Irene flew to his side. She took the soiled gun-barrels, from his relaxing grip, and began to unfasten the collar hooks of his uniform.
That, although he had fallen into their hands, in forfeiting the protection of the divine power, by some impurity or other, yet he had still so much virtue remaining, as would enable him to punish himself more exquisitely than all their despicable, ignorant crowd could possibly do, if they gave him liberty by untying him, and would hand to him one of the red hot gun-barrels out of the fire.
And we fought fought till our gun-barrels burnt our hands and our throats were parched with thirst the excitement of it all!" "Could you see when your bullet went home?" "You noticed that soldier lying behind the antheap, a hole in his forehead? That man worried us a good deal. He could shoot, the beggar!
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