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Updated: May 21, 2025
The howl of concentrated rage and horror uttered by Cheenbuk instantly checked the savage, and made him turn in self-defence. He had run to finish his horrible work, and secure the usual trophy of war without taking time to re-load his gun, and was thus almost unarmed.
I am tenderhearted by nature, and have found my eyes moist many a time over the scream of a wounded hare. Yet the blood lust was on me now. I found myself on my feet emptying one magazine, then the other, clicking open the breech to re-load, snapping it to again, while cheering and yelling with pure ferocity and joy of slaughter as I did so. With our four guns the two of us made a horrible havoc.
No cheer of triumph ascends from among the waggons; the situation of those who defend them is too serious for any idle exhibition. The man who has fired the last shot only hastens to re-load, while the others remain mute and motionless each on the look-out for a like opportunity.
As he began to re-load his gun, the small boys clustered around him, their hands in the pockets of their baggy jeans trousers, their heads inquiringly askew. "They air a-goin' ter hev a pea-fowel fur dinner down yander ter Birk's Mill," Rick remarked. The smallest boy smacked his lips, not that he knew how pea-fowl tastes, but he imagined unutterable things.
Of course revolvers and rifles were instantly pointed at them, but fortunately the miners in their exasperation had discharged all their fire-arms at Bradling not a piece remained loaded! Several therefore commenced hurriedly to re-load, but Frank shouted, in a voice that there was no misunderstanding "The first who attempts to load is a dead man!"
Splendidly done!" he cried. "You saved me from being lugged bodily out of the howdah or at least from being mauled. This lever jammed and I couldn't re-load." Her eyes shining and face beaming with excitement she shook his hand. "Wasn't it thrilling? I thought he'd have got both of us." Then to the mahout she continued in Urdu, "Gul Dad, are you hurt?"
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