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Updated: June 19, 2025
A shambling, loose-jointed giant rolled out of one of the tents, yawning and rubbing the sleep from his eyes. Then he sighted the strange canoe and was wide awake on the instant. "By the jumping Methuselah! That damned sky-pilot!" Hay Stockard nodded his head bitterly, half-reached for his rifle, then shrugged his shoulders. "Pot-shot him," Bill suggested, "and settle the thing out of hand.
He reiterated tearfully that he had not meant to shoot kukus with it, that he had not done so, that he desired it only in order to be able to take a pot-shot at the offending countryman in the village. He urged desperately that the other Chinese still possessed a gun well oiled and loaded. He asserted even with tears that he had all respect and admiration for the white man's law.
'Guessing, Beetle, as usual, from the look of delubris that it bore some relation to diluvium or deluge, you imparted the result of your half-baked lucubrations to Winton who seems to have been lost enough to have accepted it. Observing next, your companion's fall, from the presumed security of your undistinguished position in the rear-guard, you took another pot-shot.
Yuh used to call 'em 'frumes, and Why, it was me with your dad when the Indians pot-shot him at Chimney Rock; and it was me helped your mother straighten things up so she could pull out, back where she come from. She never took to the West much. How is she? Dead? Too bad; she was a mighty fine woman, your mother was. "Well, I'll-be-hanged!
"Ah, you will, will you!" he added quickly, and he fired at an exposed head over the top of the wall that hid the Indians. There was a howl of pain mingled with rage, that could be heard above the din of the fighting. "You nipped him!" cried Yellin' Kid. "I tried to," grimly said Rolling Stone. And so the fighting went on, in pot-shot fashion, with occasional volleys from the Yaquis.
You're in for a rare good beating, and, see, my friend while I wouldn't do you any harm personally, I'd crawl on my knees from here to the citadel at Quebec to get a pot-shot at your rag-tag-and-bobtail 'patriots. You can count me a first-class enemy to your 'cause, though I'm not a first-class fighting man. And now, Nic, give me a lift with my coat.
It looked ter me then like I hed him on the hip. He did n't know I was in the kintry; all I hed to do was lay out in the hills, an' take a pot-shot at him afore he saw me." "And get the girl and the money." "As God is my witness, I never thought 'bout thet. I jest wanted ter plug him. I know it sounds sorter cowardly, but that fellow 's a gun-fighter, an' he hed two Injuns with him.
Without the least hesitation he stretched forth a hand, snatched the pistol from the grasp of the woman who seemed to relinquish it more through surprise than willingly threw himself halfway down the stairs, and took a hasty pot-shot at the man almost invisible in the darkness as he rounded the turn of the next flight. Missing, P. Sybarite flung on recklessly.
Boers never expose themselves when they find bullets falling dangerously close to them. They will be behind a rock all day if need be, waiting for the chance of a pot-shot, and stay there until darkness gives them an opportunity to get away unseen. They give no hostages to fortune by taking any risks that can be avoided. The game of long bowls and sniping suits them best.
Keenly he scanned the dunes, eager for sight of a white tarboosh, or headgear, at which to take a pot-shot. Nothing was visible but sand though here, there, a gleam of steel showed where the Arabs had nested themselves down in the natural rampart with their long-barreled rifles cuddled through carefully scooped rifts in the sand. Again the machine-gun chattered.
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