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Updated: May 24, 2025
The hunt now began in earnest. Hot, flushed, scratched as to the face by the tall reeds, rolling on my ungainly animal's back as if I were hunting in an open boat on a chopping sea, I had the additional nervous distraction of seeing many sorts of game deer, wild-hogs, peafowl, partridges careering about in the most exasperating manner immediately under my gun-muzzle.
Tommy aimed at the base of that tail and pulled the trigger, praying frenziedly. A stream of flame leaped from the gun-muzzle. Explosive bullets uttered their queer cracking noise. The thing screamed horribly. Its cry was hoarsely shrill. The flashlight showed it swinging ponderously about, with Evelyn held fast against its body in a fashion horribly reminiscent of a child holding a doll.
Vengeance was written on every curve and line, on each straining engine-rod, and on each polished gun-muzzle. And in front of these, a clumsy fishing-boat rose and fell on each passing wave.
He heard the sentry at his right cry hoarsely, he heard excited shouts from the open windows of the barracks; then his feet struck a man's body, and he went down headlong. Almost at the instant the sentry was upon him, a gun-muzzle pressing him back as he attempted to rise. "Be still, ye hell hound," was the gruff order, "or I 'll blow yer to kingdom come! Sergeant of the guard, quick here!
Only a race either in childhood or senescence, it would seem, could thus give itself over with undisguised delight to the enchantments of wooden horses, cattle, cats, and pigs; to the catching of wooden fish with hooks; to the shooting at targets that one could almost touch with the gun-muzzle, and to the grave observation of sideshow performances that would excite the risibilities of the most unsophisticated audience that could be found in the Mississippi Valley.
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