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She danced wildly round the table, crying, "Six! six! six!" and when at length he caught her, and held her by the waist, she turned round and rapped him smartly on the head with a tin pea-shooter. At this stage of the proceedings a lady, who had been sitting in a low chair by the fire, looked up from her book. "Come, come!" she said pleasantly.
After that confounded prig Pendennis joined and left the party the sun was less bright to Sam Huxter, the sky less blue the sticks had no attraction for him the bitter beer hot and undrinkable the world was changed. He had a quantity of peas and a tin pea-shooter in the pocket of the cab for amusement on the homeward route.
Two days later, Valentine was sitting at his desk reading, when he was joined by his cousin. "I borrowed your brass ruler the other afternoon," said the latter, producing something from under his coat. "Yes, I know all about it, you villain!" "I only used it as a sort of pea-shooter." "Oh, I've heard all about your little game; Preston told me." Jack tried to look innocent, and then laughed.
"As I fell over I blazed off both barrels of my gun, though, indeed, it was like attacking an elephant with a pea-shooter to imagine that any human weapon could cripple that mighty bulk. And yet I aimed better than I knew, for, with a loud report, one of the great blisters upon the creature's back exploded with the puncture of the buck-shot.
"At the same instant one of the poor women sitting on the long bench stood up, screaming aloud and pointing at him with her finger. I have never in my life heard anything more demoniacally distinct. Her lean finger seemed to pick him out as if it were a pea-shooter. Though the word was a mere howl, every syllable was as clear as a separate stroke on the clock. "'Drugger Davis! she shouted.
"Sensible man! It's the best weapon in the world at this sort of rough-and-tumble work. What cartridges?" "Swan-shot." "That will do all right. I carry this big bore double-barrelled pistol loaded with slugs. You might as well try to stop one of these fellows with a pea-shooter as with a service revolver." "There are ways and means," said Scott.
Looking out of his window he espied the gardener bending over one of the beds. The gardener had a perfectly bald head. William had sometimes idly imagined the impact of a pea sent violently from a pea-shooter with the gardener's bald head. Before there had been a lifetime of experiment before him, and he had put off this one idly in favour of something more pressing. Now there was only one day.
"She lays there on a bed of pain," said the deacon. "But she says to me, 'You go. Better the house o' mournin' than the house o' feastin', she says. Oh, my friends! what can be more blessed than the counsel of an aged and feeble companion?" The deacon sat down, and Tom Drake, his finger on the pea-shooter, assured himself, in acute mental triumph, that he had almost done it that time.
I bought him a pea-shooter and a bag of peas, and the old fellow actually took aim at people on the tops of busses, and shot lots of peas on the way home." It now becomes necessary to answer the question which, for twenty years, English politicians had been putting to those who argued in favour of Canadian self-government.
"No, no old Swish! Doctor Browne." Flick-tip. A pea struck my companion on the ear, and dropped on the floor. "All right, Burr," said my neighbour; "did that with a pea-shooter. I owe you one." "I didn't do it!" I whispered eagerly. "Of course you didn't. It was that long, thin boy yonder. His name's Burr too. He'll be Burr major now, and you'll be Burr junior." "Oh!"
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