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We got them down and split them up, then lit a fire and got the meat over it and the kettle, and mixed the dough." "Did you kill another bear? We heard you firing." "No; the critter was too high up, and I ain't much good at shooting. Perhaps they will get sight of him tomorrow, and Harry and the chief will bring him down if he is within range of their shooting-irons. It is 'tarnal dark up here."
Can you, late this afternoon, go through the cars, and pick them out? I will then put you in charge of the passenger cars, and you can post your men on the platforms to act in case of need. My place will be ahead." "Major, you can depend on me," was Foster's reply. "I'll go through the train and have my eye on some boys of the right sort, and that's got their shooting-irons with them."
"Get your shooting-irons and hurry up," he said. "The varmints are coming this time in arnest." In a minute everyone was at the post assigned to him. A number of dark figures could be seen coming over the ice. "There's nigh two hundred of 'em," Peter said. "War Eagle has brought the whole strength of his tribe."
Jenkins," Lem broke in, "do you know Bub Quinn?" "No; nor I don't want to," Luella answered curtly. "Why not?" "He's too handy with his shooting-irons to suit my taste." Then, resuming the thread of her discourse: "You don't think, now, you've got toothpicks enough? They'd set things off real nice." But Lem had departed.
"What ails your men, Squire Sheriff?" cried Barty Burt, now grown to a soldier in the ranks of the assailants, as he pointed tauntingly to the company of tory guards who had been stationed in the yard, but who now, sharing in the general panic, had thrown down their arms, and stood huddled together near the door; "why don't they pick up their shooting-irons, and blaze away at the 'd d rebels, as I think I heard you order, just now?"
As he sat and panted, his gaze fell upon the big revolver and the heavy cartridge-belt. "Ten pounds of junk!" he sneered, as he unbuckled it. He did not bother to hang it on a tree, but flung it into the underbush. And as the steady tide of packers flowed by him, up trail and down, he noted that the other tenderfeet were beginning to shed their shooting-irons. His short hauls decreased.
Such a collapse has a way of being regarded as the uttermost sign of abject cowardice, which by no means follows nervous men are frequently the bravest of the brave. The refinement of modern shooting-irons seems to call for a certain corresponding refinement of courage the cold, steel-like courage that can stand and wait, and win by the waiting of their stand.
What are ye up to?" said a sergeant, startled to find a man under the bundles. "Deserter, eh? or a spy, I reckon," said the fellow, holding a pistol to Paul's head. "Better put up your shooting-irons," said Paul coolly. "Give an account of yourself, how ye came here, whar ye have been, and whar ye gwine."
"Must travel quick and be able to gallop fast. My white brothers must take nothing but what they can carry with them." "All right, chief; we will not overload ourselves. We will just take our robes and blankets, our shooting-irons, some tea and sugar, and a few pounds of flour. At what time shall we start?" "In an hour we will ride out from the fort." "We shall be ready.
"It was a mercy you did not overturn the stove," she said. He followed her glance and saw a sheet-iron stove and a coffee-pot, attended by a young squaw. He sniffed the coffee and looked back to the girl. "I'm a chechaquo," he said. Her bored expression told him that he was stating the obvious. But he was unabashed. "I've shed my shooting-irons," he added.
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