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Updated: May 3, 2025
You'll be right enough once you're in it, surely.... And if you're not above a hint from a man before the mast, sir, you'll take them shoes off. Boardin-parties bare-fut that was ollus the word aboard the Agamemnon.... Ah, Knapp, feelin slap?" "Ay, fit to run for me life or fight for it," bubbled the little rifleman, prancing out of his corner. The Parson beckoned Kit.
Peewits tumbling heavily, pigeons with beating wings, sailing jackdaws higher yet, serene in rarity, a brown kestrel oared the sky. Sanchia's soft eyes gleamed with wet. "Saint Francis and the hares! Oh, dearest, have I never known you?" "What a chance for a rifleman!" said Chevenix. "That beats the cocks." They stood intent for a while, not daring to disturb the mystery enacting.
Not a rifleman in those crouching ranks, not a cannoneer at those masked and shotted guns, but knows the needs of the situation, the imperative duty of forbearance. Besides, there has been time enough to forbid them all to fire. True, a single rifle-shot might drop him and be no great disclosure.
The men proceeded to eat their dinner from their haversacks, while the quartermaster-sergeant had taken rations from the wagon for the portion of the escort that had come over to the woods. As soon as Lieutenant Lyon had given his attention to the needs of his men and horses, he turned to receive the message of the rifleman.
But the mounted rifleman is a peculiarly British product British and American with a fresh edge upon it from South Africa. I am most curious to see what a division of these fellows will make of the Uhlans. It is good to see that already the old banners are in the wind, Lovat's Horse, Scottish Horse, King Edward's Horse, and the rest. All that cavalry can do will surely be done by our cavalry.
As the river widened and grew rougher, we were wetted from stem to stern at every plunge; and when it became evident that the soldier could not handle the sails if the Maltese was kept at the helm, the heavy rifleman who was on board, declaring that he knew the river, took upon himself to steer us. In a few minutes the boat was nearly swamped.
Said one of the constabulary, "They lack nerve to fire from shorter distances, as they think MacAdam is the better shot, and to miss him would be risky, as he is known to shoot rabbits with ball cartridge. At the same time, I remember Burke of Loughrea, who was shot, had also a fine reputation as a rifleman, but they settled him neatly enough.
They said we were brothers in misfortune!" Whereat this learned pundit laughed good-humouredly. It may be that Dr. Traill is the long-range rifleman of whom a Land League man remarked, on hearing that the marksman had made a long series of bull's eyes "The saints betune us an' harm but wouldn't he make an iligant tenant!" Dr. Kane was not surprised to see the professor run away.
A garden wall ran under the front; and, parallel with the wall, a road pretty constantly swept by musketry fire from the convent. At the head of the street Corporal Sam stumbled against a rifleman who, sheltered from bullets at the angle of the crossing, stood calmly watching the conflagration. 'Hallo! said the rifleman cheerfully; 'I wanted some more audience, and you're just in time.
As for me, my Sagamore had not arrived; and I finally cast a cloak about me and went out to the horse-sheds, where our rifleman lolled, chewing a lump of spruce and holding our three horses. "Well, Jack," said I, "this is rare weather for Colonel Tarleton's fox hunting." "They say he hunts an ass, sir, too," said Jack Mount under his breath.
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