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Updated: June 13, 2025
"Come on mit der courage, somebotty, so I can shoot holes in you." "You're building your own coffin just now, Dan'l," retorted Tobey, in baffled rage. "We know where to get you, old boy, and we'll have revenge for this night's work." "I vill take some popguns home mit me," was the composed reply. "Den, ven you come, I vill make a receptioning for you. Eh?"
Two flashes were seen, and the low, booming sound of a couple of guns came across the ocean. "We're not quite within range of the mounseers' popguns yet," observed the boatswain, with a laugh. "They must come closer before they can harm us." "Do you think we can beat them off?" asked Rayner. "You may be very sure that we'll try pretty hard to do so," answered the boatswain, in a confident tone.
Susy laughed. "Just to think of our keeping a boy in THIS house, Prudy Parlin!" "O, no! course not!" returned her little sister, quickly; "we wouldn't keep a boy." "You see," argued Susy, "it's boys that fires all the popguns, and whistle in your ears, and frighten you. Why, if this was a brother, we couldn't but just live! What made you cry for a brother, Prudy?" "Poh, I didn't!
Next, we see the standard of Great Britain furled; next, unfurled and borne by a troop of shadows to the sentry-box. The officer within says, 'I say I should be very happy to carry it, but I cannot quit this gentlemanly residence. Next, the standard is shown assailed by popguns. Several of the shadows are prostrate.
"Them, sir," says Cabby, "was put there by 'Enry the Heighth, and this 'ere wall was the purtection of the town when the Frenchmen hassaulted it." "Ho!" says Bunker, contemptuously. "Just fancy one of our ironclads paying any attention to the barking of those popguns!"
"I think we could, Tim," Charlie replied; "but the odds of fifty-three heavy cannon, which the spies say they've got, to our ten popguns, is serious. However, I'm sorry we're not going to fight, and I'm afraid that you must make up your mind to the wet, and Hossein his to giving me bad dinners for some weeks to come; that is to say, if the enemy don't turn us out of this."
"Dammit, why did you do that?" von Schlichten demanded, lifting his foot from the gun-pedal. "Are you afraid of the kind of popguns those geeks are using?" "I am not afraid to risk my vehicle, or myself, sir," the lieutenant replied, with the extreme formality of a very junior officer chewing out a very senior one. "I am, however, afraid to risk my passenger. Generals are not expendable, sir."
We'd scarcely finished our meal when there was the sound of a gunshot far down in the valley, and, old Clair-de-Lune jumping up at the report, we were all on our feet in an instant to speak of the danger. "Halloa, popguns," cries Peter Bligh, in his Irish way; "what for now would any man be firing popguns at this time of the morning?"
Santa Claus can't bear to see little folks in trouble, so he took the boy into his arms, and asked him where he wanted to go. "To Tommy Turner's, and oh, you know that boy in the awful old jacket that likes popguns," was the breathless reply. Of course he knew him, for he knows every boy and girl in Christendom; so a popgun was added to the medley of toys.
If that's what you think I'm sure I'm willing to wait, only it's to be hoped that that clock upon her mantelpiece moves quicker than its mistress. Presently, when about a minute had gone, he called to the cabman. 'Seen a sign of anything? The cabman shouted back. 'Ne'er a sign, you'll hear a sound of popguns when I do. Those five minutes did seem long ones.
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