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"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.
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.
"But look here, kid." Iowa turned carefully, hands still in the air. "Look here, can't we square this thing up? You got the drop on me, O K and with a blame little pea-shooter," he added, catching a glimpse, as he thought, of the end of a small black barrel, but nevertheless continuing his attitude of surrender. "You got the drop and you're a smart kid, you are but can't we fix this thing up?
Its members had ransacked the toy-shops of the fair, and every man was carrying some plaything and making the most of it, and extolling its greater virtues than the playthings of his fellows. Taranne carried a pea-shooter, and peppered his companion's legs persistently, grinning with delight if any of his victims showed irritation. Oriol had got a large trumpet, and was blowing it lustily.
"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.
"You're doing lots," said Tommy genially, "lots, and well, the legal world'll take off its hat to you yet." Meanwhile our hero, as Vivian de Vere de Softley, the author of one thousand love stories, would say, was pensively leaning out of one of the office windows and thoughtfully taking pot shots at passers-by with a pea-shooter.
And she blew in at one end, and blew little Pivi out at the other, like a pea from a pea-shooter. 'Oh! cried the woman, 'what a state you are in! What have you been doing? 'It was Kabo who broke my leg at the slinging game, said Pivi. 'Well, I am sorry for you, said the woman; 'will you come with me, and do what I tell you? 'I will! said Pivi, for the woman was very kind and pretty.
He tries the dolls by court-martial, and he shot Arabella with a pea-shooter, and broke her eye; only grandpapa made him have it put in again with his own money, and then he said I was a little sneak, and if I ever did it again he would shoot me. 'Mind you don't tell Clarence what he said, said Martyn. 'Oh, no! I think Mr.
He raised it to his shoulder and took aim at the one bright eye gleaming from behind the branch. Then he lowered it, and turned to his boarder with a mixture of politeness and rustic mockery. "Your first shot!" said he. "I'll shoot the critter, after you've tried that there pea-shooter on him!" "He's licked the dogs in fair fight," said the schoolmaster. "Let's let him off!"
So they only stood looking about them for a few minutes and then prepared to go back. "Take care, my lord, take care!" cried Roy, as Mirak, who was preparing to descend legs foremost, as he had been told to do, suddenly looked up with a face full of mischief, let go with his hands, and pouf! disappeared down the slippery tunnel like a pea in a pea-shooter.
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