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Ye hev got it a sight mo' at heart than yer brother. Fur thar war Wat, all twisted up at the small e-end o' the tellingscope, purtendin' ter be on mighty close terms with the comic, though lots o' other men said it jes' dazed thar eyes, an' they couldn't see nuthin' through it, an' mighty leetle arterward through sightin' so long one-eyed."
"Thry a sightin' shot in the middle of the row," said Mulvaney, the man of many wiles. "There's a red rock yonder he'll be sure to pass. Quick!" Ortheris ran his sight up to six hundred yards and fired. The bullet threw up a feather of dust by a clump of gentians at the base of the rock. "Good enough!" said Ortheris, snapping the scale down. "You snick your sights to mine or a little lower.
Maybe a trifle less, bekaze the air's so thin. WOP! WOP! WOP! went a volley of musketry on the rear face of the north hill. 'Curse them Mixed Pickles firin' at nothin'! They'll scare arf the country. 'Thry a sightin' shot in the middle of the row, said Mulvaney, the man of many wiles. 'There's a red rock yonder he'll be sure to pass. Quick!
I was kind of glad to see him enjoyin' himself so innocent, and now and then I'd help along the excitement. "Heard about how Morgan's tryin' to get hold of Blitzen?" I'd say, and Piddie would prick up his ears like a fox-terrier sightin' a rat. "Who told you?" Piddie'd ask.
"Clear case of self-defence, isn't it, Wade?" "Looks that way, if the evidence corroborates what he says," the lawyer replied. "Are you sure he shot first, Tom?" "Better put it he meant to shoot first," McHale responded. "Naturally, I ain't standin' round waitin' for no sightin' shots. It comes close to an even break." "That's good enough," Wade declared.
Well, he started out snipin' the day after McCuaig quit, and McCuaig gave him his rifle too, and took him up to the 'hide. Well, big Jim was always a careless cuss, you know. He gets his eye on the hole, sightin' his rifle, and McCuaig was watchin' through one of them new things " "Perry's scope." "Yes, that's it, Paris cope. Them French is mighty smart fellows, you bet. When along walks a Hun.
And all these things were duly advertised, just as we have been told of the old soldier who visited the Gettysburg Cyclorama at Chicago and looking upon the picture, he suddenly cried to his companion, "Down, Bill, down! by t' Lord, there's a feller sightin' his gun on us!"
It was as good as a Spanish spur to a wild horse. Over he came with legs an' arms out like a flyin' squirrel, and down he fell flat on his stummick at our feet wi' the nearest thing to a fair bu'st that I ever saw, or raither heard, for I was busy sightin' a Redskin at the time an' didn't actually see it.
You see, sightin' standin' timber and selectin' from the gen'ral show of the trees in the ground and the lay of roots hez sorter made me take notice." He paused. "Then," he added, somewhat despondingly, "you don't know who she is?" "No," said the editor, reflectively; "not even if it is really a WOMAN who writes." "Eh?"
I've been sightin' timber all along here, and that's how I dropped in on yer mar." Then, seeing a look of eagerness light up the faces of Bob and Eunice, he was encouraged to make the most of his opportunity. "Why, ma'am," he went on, cheerfully, "I reckon you're holdin' that wood at a pretty stiff figger, now." "Why?" asked Mrs. Delatour, simply. Mr.
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