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Updated: June 12, 2025
And as in these days of percussion-caps and Miniè rifles we lay by an old matchlock or crossbow, using it only to ornament our walls, or as the powdered postilion with his horn and his boots is superseded by the locomotive and the electric telegraph, so the old rusty Church wheels are removed into buildings apart from the daily life of the people, where they seem to revolve harmlessly and without any necessary connection with the State wheels.
They were long-barrelled, ivory-handled, business-like weapons, provided with miniature ramrods. The velvet-lined interior of the case was divided into various compartments, two for the pistols, one for powder-flask, one for bullets, one for percussion-caps, and one for wads.
A pony's trot behind him struck through the silence like percussion-caps; all Jakko seemed to echo with it; and it came nearer insistent, purposeful but he was hardly aware of it until the creature pulled up beside him, and Madeline, slipping quickly off, said 'I'm coming too. He took off his hat and stared at her. She seemed to represent a climax. 'I'm coming too, she said.
It's not difficult to carry a few thousand percussion-caps an' a bullet-mould about wi' you wherever you go.
The bait was too tempting, and it spread like fire, when here they discovered that salt, bacon, powder, fire-arms, percussion-caps, etc., etc., were worth as much as gold; and, strange to say, this traffic was not only permitted, but encouraged.
The bait was too tempting, and it spread like fire, when here they discovered that salt, bacon, powder, fire-arms, percussion-caps, etc., etc., were worth as much as gold; and, strange to say, this traffic was not only permitted, but encouraged.
Here and there flames flicker up, with a sharp crackling noise, which continues. The one is not flashes from the guns, nor the other a snapping of percussion-caps. Wilder, with eyes turning to all points, is the first to perceive this. "We're on fire, boys!" he vociferates; "on fire everywhar!" "Great God! yes! What are we to do?" several ask, despairingly.
And finally, an ironmonger will sell you anything but a bath, while he thrives on a lively trade in percussion-caps and gunpowder. Colonel Gilbert did not pause to look at these bewildering shop-windows, for the simple reason that he knew every article there displayed. He was, it will be remembered, a leisurely Frenchman, than whom there are few human beings of a more easily aroused attention.
The bait was too tempting, and it spread like fire, when here they discovered that salt, bacon, powder, fire-arms, percussion-caps, etc., etc., were worth as much as gold; and, strange to say, this traffic was not only permitted, but encouraged.
I took my rifle and filled my powder-flask, with a further supply in a leathern case which had been Obed's, and all the percussion-caps, and as much shot as I could carry. I took the precaution also of collecting all the bows and arrows, and other weapons, of the Indians, and of piling them upon the fire, where they were quickly consumed.
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