guncrews

Updated: May 16, 2025

In like manner he told off three other guncrews, and the remainder left at the double, to return through the further doors with four light quick-firers jerking at the end of man-ropes. "Knock down and assemble against time!" Purvis called. The audience closed in a little as the crews flung themselves on the guns, which melted, wheel by wheel, beneath their touch.

Rudyard Kipling - Traffics and Discoveries