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Updated: June 24, 2025
"But not rattles and dolls and drums and pop-guns and boxing-gloves and all the other things you've looked at. Girls of your age " "This girl wasn't looking at them for herself. I'm 'most grown up now. But everybody on our street has got a baby, and a lot of children besides. Mrs. Perry has twins and a baby, and Mrs. Latimer always has two on a bottle at the same time.
Our pop-guns are out of it;" and they stood there, with curses in their throats it was a cursing age, you must remember and faces full of gloomy anger, as helpless against the Frenchman's long-range guns as seagulls on a rock. The schooner came racing on, and rounded to with a beautiful sweep just out of reach of our guns. Practice had made him perfect.
He said that they 'ad made 'im the laughing-stock of the neighbourhood, and that they oughtn't to shoot with anything but pop-guns. They got to such high words over it that two of the gentlemen went off 'ome that very night. There was a lot of talk up at the Cauliflower, too, and more than one pointed out 'ow lucky Bob Pretty was in getting four men out of the six in his club.
Some small tiny puffs showed that fighting was going on. Then came a pretty considerable number, though the reports which reached them sounded no louder than those of pop-guns. Tom declared that he could see the flash of steel as the cutlasses glittered in the sunshine. One thing was certain, that the British crew had gained the slaver's deck for that a slaver she was there could be no doubt.
After buying what he wanted for Nurse Jane's cake, the old gentleman rabbit started back for the hollow-stump bungalow. On the way, he passed a toy store, and he stopped to look in the window at the pop-guns, the spinning-tops, the dolls, the Noah's Arks, with the animals marching out of them, and all things like that. "It makes me young again to look at toys," said the bunny uncle.
Even allowing for the density of the air, that kind of noise isn't made by pop-guns." "Let's go see what's doing," and Seaton started to walk toward one of the windows with his free, swinging stride.
I watched his receding figure until it was lost in the obscurity of the grove, and then gave myself up to the most desponding reflections. Reflection after Marnoo’s departure—Battle of the pop-guns—Strange conceit of Marheyo—Process of making tappa. The knowledge I had now obtained as to the intention of the savages deeply affected me.
Nathan had also enlisted under the banner, for he was thinking of starting a theatre, and not unreasonably held that it was better to have the licensing authorities for him than against him. "We will pay the Liberals out," cried Merlin. "Gentlemen," said Nathan, "if we are for war, let us have war in earnest; we must not carry it on with pop-guns.
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