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"I feel inclined to make a lazy day of it and go out with your son Archie," said Mabberly, "to look at the best views for photographing. I had intended to photograph a good deal among the Western Isles, this summer; but my apparatus now lies, with the yacht, at the bottom of the sea." "Yes, in company with my sixteen-shooter rifle," said Giles Jackman, with a rueful countenance.
This was to pass quickly from the steamboat on its reaching the landing-place and to hold my way across the country in the direction of the Lower Fort, which I hoped to reach before daylight. If stopped, there was but one course to pursue to announce name and profession, and trust to the Colt and sixteen-shooter for the rest.
The "sixteen-shooter," the Winchester rifle, elicited a thousand flattering observations from the excited man; and the tiny deadly revolvers, whose beauty and workmanship they thought were superhuman, evoked such gratified eloquence that I was fain to try something else.
Of course the party were terribly alarmed, and regretted their coming without on escort of soldiers. But Buffalo Bill said quietly: "You are all well mounted, so ride straight on, and don't push too fast, or get separated." "And you, Cody?" asked an officer. "Oh, I'll be along somewhere; but I've got a new gun, a sixteen-shooter, and I want to try just what it will do."
"I remember the first pump-gun that came into these mountains. It was a Henry sixteen-shooter, and it blew in along with a kid from Boston who wanted to kill a bear. The young chap's uncle tried to convince him that killing a California Grizzly was not as much fun as some folks pretended, but the Boston boy couldn't be convinced, and so the uncle hired me to go along and take care of him.
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