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I reckon I'll just plead guilty!" "Don't be in a hurry," Bob warned him. "It isn't a matter to go off half-cock on. Any man would have done what you did. I'd have done it myself. That's why I stood by you. I'm not sure you aren't right to take advantage of what the law can do for you. Plenty do just that with only the object of acquiring other people's dollars.
"I met Colonel Snow this morning " "Indeed," said Rand sarcastically, "that's news." "Now you needn't go off at half-cock," retorted Jack, "wait until I get through." "Well, what about it?" asked Donald. "Why, he said Hurrah, I've got a bite!" cried Jack, pulling in his line. "He did!" exclaimed Rand. "That was a queer thing for him to say."
He agreed to everything; there never was such an obliging capitalist before; there wasn't a thing they asked of him that he didn't do, with the greatest of pleasure, and all went merry as a marriage-bell till one morning a whole gang of fresh men marched into the Dryfoos and Hendry Addition, under the escort of a dozen Pinkertons with repeating rifles at half-cock, and about fifty fellows found themselves out of a job.
Rogers held for him. The gun was undoubtedly the Lord Proprietor's; a breechloader of curiously fine workmanship, bearing the name of a famous St. James' Street maker. Of the hammers, one was down, the other at half-cock; and, pulling open the breech, the Commandant drew forth two cartridges, the one empty, the other unused. He pocketed these and examined the barrels.
"She she hasn't any cause for this, you know, George," Warren said, ending it, after watching the other man hopefully for further suggestion. "Hasn't, huh?" George asked thoughtfully, hopefully. "No, she hasn't!" Warren reiterated, gaining confidence. "I've been a fool, I admit that, but Rachael has no cause to go off at half-cock, this way!" "What d'you mean by that?" George asked flatly.
He was a short, puffy little man, with a bullet head at half-cock in the air, producing a general effect of nostrils on you. "Sing, eh?" he mumbled, once or twice. Before this I had been Mrs.
It was made in the year 1835 by J. Purdey, of 314 1/2, Oxford Street, London, and is a beautiful piece of workmanship of its kind. Without the ramrod, which is now missing, it weighs only 5 lbs. 3 3/4 oz. The barrel is octagonal, and the rifled bore, designed to take a spherical bullet, is 1/2 in. in diameter. The hammer can be set to safety on the half-cock by means of a catch behind it.
"Shall I relieve you of your gun?" "Thank ye, lad noa. It's moor coomfortable wi' me, and it's main dangersome to handle on the half-cock. That's why I didn't leave 'im on the horse outside!" At the sound of his voice and occasional accent a flash of intelligence relieved the editor's mind.
"You go off at half-cock, and don't hear me out. God made us all, white, black, and red; and, no doubt, had his own wise intentions in coloring us differently. Still, he made us, in the main, much the same in feelin's; though I'll not deny that he gave each race its gifts. A white man's gifts are Christianized, while a red-skin's are more for the wilderness.
"And go off at half-cock into the bargain? I ain't one of the kind, you know, that talks around Robin Hood's barn. I go straight in at the front door and out at the back. It's my rough way of coming to the p'int at once. I kin see that you're runnin' behind in speret'al matters, and I believe that my cussedness is part to blame. You don't feel good as you used to.
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