rifle-bearer

Updated: May 21, 2025

Abdi Dereh, my rifle-bearer, was in the act of shoving the gun muzzle against the lion's ribs for a shot through the heart, when a shot from without the bush we never learned by whom fired, probably by one of the pony men broke his arm and knocked him flat.

Edgar Beecher Bronson - The Red-Blooded Heroes of the Frontier