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Updated: June 14, 2025
With talks with experts the following was developed as to what the war showed: First That the gun is still the dominating factor in war. Second That rapid-fire guns are especially valuable, but that it is advisable to retain guns of large calibres. Third That smokeless powder is absolutely essential for modern warfare.
Dead silence followed this speech. The girls did some rapid-fire mental calculations and realized that this young man was proposing to invest something like fourteen hundred thousand dollars, in order that they might carry out their philanthropic conception. Why should he do this, even if he could afford it? Both Mr. Merrick and Arthur Weldon were staring stolidly at the floor.
How the chatter of those two rapid-fire guns did carry on, with the splinters flying every-which way as the missiles tore them loose from the logs and the coaming of the sloop's deck. Perk was compelled to do most of his work while keeping his head down, lest he be potted in that rain of bullets the other fighter was pouring in on him.
He'd have to be some rapid-fire paint slinger if he was to use 'Ikky-boy as a model just then for him and Buddy was havin' a free-for-all mix-up behind the davenport that nothing short of a movie camera would have done justice to. "Oh, you darling little fellow!" she gurgles on. "I must hold you in my arms just a moment. Please, mother mayn't I?"
March began, and dragged its weary length along, and still the darkness increased in the Guardian's skies. From Boston the Sternberg, Bloom, and McCoy losses were beginning to come with the frequency and regularity of the shots from a rapid-fire gun.
Many British fell, and it was here that the heaviest losses were sustained by the attacking party. But Frank soon found a remedy for this. The rapid-fire guns were turned upon the huts and houses, and, as the bullets began to find their way into the openings, the work of the snipers stopped.
Just as an orchardist, discovering a certain parasite on his trees, thinks of a specific poison, so they knew that this great "forward" of the Russian foot-soldiers would start the Austrian machine and rapid-fire batteries. They were moving now in front of a long line of new Russian works which had appeared deserted. Boylan would have known better; Samarc should have known.
And then Helen had her ears filled with a rapid-fire account of running horses and Riggs and outlaws and Beasley called boldly to his teeth, and a long ride and an outlaw who was a hero a fight with Riggs blood and death another long ride a wild camp in black woods night lonely, ghostly sounds and day again plot a great actress lost to the world Ophelia Snakes and Ansons hoodooed outlaws mournful moans and terrible cries cougar stampede fight and shots, more blood and death Wilson hero another Tom Carmichael fallen in love with outlaw gun-fighter if black night and Dale and horse and rides and starved and, "Oh, Nell, he WAS from Texas!"
Dave went forward, Midshipman Cranthorpe placing him. "The others will form in line of platoon front, using Mr. Darrin as their guide," directed the young instructor. Then followed some rapid-fire drilling in dressing, facings, counting fours, marching and halting. The material in hand was excellent, or Midshipman Cranthorpe might have been in despair.
From the great cannon, and from the batteries of smaller rapid-fire guns, a steady stream of projectiles was hurled inward, frightfully rending the Spanish ships, until at the end of the evolutions three of them were burning fiercely, and the others were little more than wrecks.
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