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He took in his paddle and picked up the shotgun, which, with much forethought, he had placed beside himself in the canoe before starting out. Dick paddled very slowly and quietly toward the ducks until they were within easy range. Johnny had been told that if he wanted to be a real sportsman he must never fire at birds with a shotgun unless they were flying.
Then the women and children cuddled up in the wagons for the night, while men slept, wrapped in blankets, around the camp-fire or under the wagons, with one always on guard against danger from prowling Indians or wolves. Every man or boy carried a rifle or shotgun, and killed plenty of game.
A pleasant hum of insects filled the land's wide serenity with hidden life. Carl left a trail of happy, monotonous whistling behind him all day, as his dog followed the winding trail of prairie-chickens, as a covey of chickens rose with booming wings and he swung his shotgun for a bead. He stopped by prairie-sloughs or bright-green bogs to watch for a duck.
"Wait here, Jimmy, till I get my gun and try a shot at him." And away he ran, presently to return with his gun the same that Abel had found in the boat at the time he discovered Bobby. It was double-barreled, and a shotgun, but now both barrels were loaded with round ball. And loaded with ball it was effective enough at fifty yards or so, but far from certain in accuracy at a greater distance.
"Well?" he asked as they surged around him. The man with the shotgun suddenly saw the pistol and started to throw the gun to his shoulder. "We got him!" he yelled, excitedly. "Got who?" asked De Launay. "You pointing that gun at me? Better head it another way." His automatic was swinging carelessly at the belligerent farmer.
"We forgot something, boys, continued the other. "What's that?" demanded Frank, coming to a stand. "Why, when we were about it we ought to have demanded that they return Bluff's dandy, repeating shotgun," said Will. Thereupon Frank broke out into a laugh and turned upon Jerry. "Hear that, will you?" he remarked, as if tickled. "Oh, rats! there's that blessed old gun bobbing up again.
"Sure I did, but I thought you were dodging the leap of the cat, the same as I did myself," returned Max. "Dodging nothing!" said Steve. "I tell you that pesky gun clean kicked me off my pins. Never had it play me such a trick before." Max stooped and picked up the shotgun. Then he laughed. "It's all as simple as pie," he said.
He merely leaned his shotgun against his thigh, reached around beneath his coat and produced a forty-five caliber revolver. This he held out toward Jones. "Good thing to have," conceded the other. "But well, no; not in this case. They got the booty with a show of legality, since Hoff signed the copartnership agreement and turned over the checks.
This, scrawled with charcoal on a piece of smooth hide, ran: "Have had to go down to get water and lay of the land. Absolutely necessary. Don't be afraid. Am between you and them, well armed. Will leave you both the rifle and the shotgun. Stay here, and have no fear. Will come back as soon as possible. He laid this primitive letter where, on awakening, she could not fail to see it.
Kenny chose indignantly to tell it all again and overshot the mark, bringing Garry down upon him with a bark. "Now, see here, Kenny," he interposed curtly, "that's enough. Brian's usually sane and regular. It's by no means a criminal offense for him to pick a row with you about his shotgun. And he didn't mean to smash the statuette."
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