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Leo quietly got ready his Winchester repeater, a rifle which, as the reader probably knows, can discharge a dozen or more shots in rapid succession; the cartridges being contained in a case resembling a thick ram-rod under the barrel, from which they are thrust almost instantaneously into their places.
Mayfield, "that thar's danger in a gun without lock, stock, or barrel you kin w'ar a feller out with the ram-rod." Lou replaced the gun and sat down. Tom stood over her, slily showing her some verses. Mrs. Mayfield, glancing round, understood that it was a "poetic situation," and remarked to Jasper. "Just now we were speaking of trouble.
"Why yes, he was a good soldier, once upon a time, I believe, he won the Victoria Cross for doing something or other that was very brave, and he wears it with all his other medals, pinned on the inside of his coat. Oh yes, he was a fine soldier, once, but he's a very foolish old soldier, now, I think, and as stiff as the ram-rod of one of his own guns. But I'm glad you like him, Mr.
There!" wailed the Little Girl peevishly. Her body was suddenly stiff as a ram-rod. "Don't say 'There! There! If you've got to make any noise at all, say 'Here! Here!" "Here! Here!" droned the White Linen Nurse. "Here! Here! Here! Here!" On and on and interminably on, "Here! Here! Here! Here!"
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