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"Whither bound this fair morning my Captain?" asked Bradford, in whose blood the brave morning air worked like wine. "First to fetch my snaphance, and then I will have thee into the wood for a stroll to enjoy thy fine day, and to hold counsel with thy friend." "And that is ever to mine own advantage," replied Bradford with affectionate honesty.
My best treasures are Gideon and my snaphance, and I cannot spare them so long as I live to wield them." "That's the chat that suits me, neighbor," declared Hopkins in his usual rough, hearty fashion, while Allerton, an unwonted tinge of color upon his sallow cheek, hastened to avow himself as ready for fighting as any man since fighting was decided to be the best policy.
He likes our religion best because 'tis best cheap, yet would fain allow of purgatory, cause 'twas of his trade, and brought in so much money. His heart goes with the same snaphance his purse doth: 'tis seldom open to any man. Friendship he accounts but a word without any signification; nay, he loves all the world so little, that an it were possible he would make himself his own executor.
But even then the bear maintained his grip upon his two victims, and it was not until his brains were fairly beaten out with the butt end of a snaphance by the boldest of the party that they were enabled to secure the bodies of their comrades and give them a hurried kind of Christian burial.
"And quit yourselves like men," muttered Standish, his snaphance at his shoulder, his eager eyes scanning the covert. Three shots from the pinnace rang bravely through the wood, and then came a hail, "Ho, comrades, bring us a light! We have no fire to set off our pieces!"
At least four thousand men were engaged in this chief attack, and the light now permitted the besieged to direct their fire from cannon, demi-cannon, culverin, and snaphance, with fatal effect. The assailants, thinned, straggling, but undismayed, closed up their ranks, and still came fiercely on.
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