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Instead they saw only a piece of oilskin that was carefully wrapped about what proved to be some sheets of paper almost as stiff as parchment. "Huh," grunted Tyke. "Pesky lot of trouble with mighty little result. I told you I thought Manuel was a bit touched in the brain, an' I guess I was right." "Wait a minute," said Captain Hamilton. "Don't go off at half-cock.
Neither of them guessed there'd be other hawsses wandering here in the night, or they both would have come." He turned back to our pack animals. "Then you'll not hunt for this camp to make sure?" "I prefer making sure first. We might be expected at that camp." He took out his rifle from beneath his leg and set it across his saddle at half-cock.
"I wasn't quick enough, and that saved YOU. For ef I got that pistol out and in sight o' that man that held the gun " "Well," said Hale impatiently, "he'd have hesitated." "He'd hev blown YOU with both barrels outer the window, and that before I'd got a half-cock on my revolver." "But that would have been only one man gone, and there would have been five of you left," said Hale haughtily.
Just behind the shoulder; a little low, for that gun kicks horribly." "Murder and blazes, she won't go off!" cried the exasperated Irishman, as, after a wavering effort to take aim, he essayed unsuccessfully to pull the trigger. "Half-cock, man! Cock it!" said Frank quickly. "So 'tis, be the mortial!
As Steptoe passed before the opening of the tunnel he heard the cry of "Halt!" He looked up. He saw Stacy not thirty yards before him with his rifle at half-cock. He saw Barker and Demorest, fully armed, rise from behind their breastworks of rock along the ledge and thus fully occupy the claim. But he saw more. He saw that his plot was known.
But don't go off at half-cock, narvous like. I am not like the black preacher that had forty-eleven divisions. I have only a few more remarks to make. Well, I have observed that in editin' my last Journal, you struck out some scores I made under certain passages and maxims, because you thought they were not needed, or looked vain.
One day he narrowly missed an unheard-of accident: a foolish servant, at some boar-hunt, gave him a loaded piece on the half-cock; half-cock slipped in the handling; bullet grazed his Majesty's very temple, was felt twitching the hair there; ye Heavens! Wedding, in spite of clouds from her Majesty, is coming steadily on.
He rubbed his forehead with a weary hand. "I'll tell you all about it presently," he said. "I had a letter from my wife's mother that worried me, and I started off at half-cock, I got worrying but of course I should have written you " "Don't bother about that now, if it distresses you," she said quickly and sympathetically. "Any time will do for that.
That is a mere process, and no augury of future behavior. But you are always at your best when you go off at half-cock like that! What I meant was that woman has degenerated, not through passion but through ages of the exercise of her pettier and meaner qualities.
As I set the trigger to half-cock I saw that the powder was well up in the nipple; therefore, slipping on a cap and setting the trigger to full-cock, I again levelled the piece and bowled over the leading buffalo. "It is enough!" exclaimed the king soberly. "No wonder that you conquered the tribes who rose against you if you were all armed like that!
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