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And he was planning that when he sold out and got from under some of his schemes he would come home and fix up the old farm and make it the finest place in Ontario. He was going to buy all the new machinery for John, and have electric light, "And a piano," put in Christina, "we need one far worse than we need a hay loader, don't we, Mary?"
A loader fell and he also lay still. A third rifle shot, almost as quick as a flash, and a gunner went down, a fourth and a man at a wheel fell, a fifth and the unerring bullet claimed a sponger, a sixth and a Mexican just springing to cover was wounded in the shoulder.
When he had killed the bird he tossed it to Lord Ashiel's loader, and strode away across the heather. Maisie looked at Juliet with a laugh. "Your English young men are perfectly lovely," she remarked, "and David is just elegant, I think, or I'd not have gone and engaged myself to be led to the altar by him; but I can't kind of get used to the British way of looking at things.
Besides, as the loader idea involved a whole afternoon of Ida's society he certainly was not inclined to negative it. But Edward Cossey did not smile; on the contrary he positively scowled with jealousy, and was about to make some remark when Ida held up her finger. Luncheon went off pretty well, though Edward Cossey did not contribute much to the general conversation.
The cartridges are inserted from above. There is a stop by means of which the cartridges can be prevented rising up into the shoe, and which forms a sort of false bottom to the slot in the latter, so that the arm can be used as a single loader. Lee-Burton.
'It's a howitzer, said Ken. 'Rummiest looking howitzer I ever saw, Roy answered. 'Looks as if it came out of the Ark. 'Came out of the Crimea, I expect. They used this kind of thing sixty years ago. It's a muzzle loader, you see. 'And shoots real cannon balls, said Roy, pointing to a pyramid of huge iron globes, each about fourteen inches in diameter.
He just pegged away, always playing the odd or worse, uncomplaining, unresentful, as even-tempered as the May wind, and never by any chance winning a hole from me. He was the rarest "duffer" it has ever been my good fortune to meet. As a rule, the poorer the player the loader his execrations.
The later pattern, however, has two notches on the magazine for the catch, C, to engage in. When the magazine is inserted in the slot only as far as the upper notch, the rifle can be used only as a single loader, but on pressing the box home to the second notch, the magazine immediately comes into play.
We had nearly finished when I noticed the Duke of Rittersheim send his loader away to pick up something he had dropped. I noted the man run off to fulfil the request, and at the same moment my eyes were attracted by the last rays of the red sun, already set, reddening far away the waters of Lynn Deeps.
The bullet which, on the 18th, killed the renowned loader of "the fighting Division" of the Peninsula, entered the head near the left temple, and passed through the brain; so that Picton's death must have been instantaneous. Ponsonby, with many others, was speared by a reserve of Polish lancers, and left for dead on the field.
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