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You've got me all right; I know that. But what about you? You can't get ten feet. Abe Hawk's right back of you, waitin' for you now. They'd dump us into the same hole, Tom. You don't want to go into the same hole with me, do you? Let's talk it over." The rambling plea sounded so reasonable it won a brief reprieve from Stone. "Don't uncock your gun till I'm through, Tom," urged Laramie.
As you approach nearer to it, you observe the figure to slide down from the gate, to desist from whistling, to uncock its hat, to become tender of foot, to depress its head and elevate its shoulders, and to present all the characteristics of profound despondency. Arriving at the bottom of the hill and coming close to the figure, you observe it to be the figure of a shabby young man.
Education won, and Mark stared as he saw his father uncock his piece and throw it over his shoulder, while the major began to laugh. "Well, Mark, there's your wild beast," he said merrily, and he pointed up at the mountain. "I I don't understand." "Steam, boy, gas, or something of that kind. Didn't you see the smoke and flame come out with a puff?"
"I'm sure you will not; but still you must not be rash; and now we will go on again, as soon as I have uncocked my gun. I have seen more accidents happen from people cocking their guns, and forgetting to uncock them afterwards, than you can have any idea of. Recollect, also, until you want to fire, never cock your gun."
Stone only grinned: "I can hear pretty well, right now." "If you want to see her picture, Tom, uncock your gun." "Not a little bit. I've got you right." Laramie smiled: "Sure, Tom, but there's plenty of time; put down the hammer." Stone, without moving his gun, did silently lower the hammer. Laramie counted one. Then he began to describe his trick bride. Stone cut him off.
Tears were streaming from his own tired eyes as he spoke. "Slivers, you did this!" he charged, angrily. "You tell me where you got him, or I'll shoot you down like a dog!" He had hastened up to the teamster, against whose very breast he thrust a pistol a foot in length. "By God! he'd do it!" said Slivers, unmoved by the push of the loaded weapon. "Uncock it, Barney.
And the Beluchi translated. "I'd like to hear their trigger-springs released," suggested Brown. "This has all been a shade too slick for me. I've got my doubts yet about it's being done. Tell him to order them to uncock their rifles, so that I can hear them do it." "He says that they are gone already!" translated the Beluchi.
Perkins enjoyed a glorious reputation with himself for bright sayings, which he always accompanied with a cock of the eye. The musician not showing any visible appreciation of the manager's metaphor, Perkins immediately proceeded to uncock his eye. "Passed the box-office coming up," continued this voluble enlightener; "nothing left but a few seats in the top gallery.
"Gentlemen," he said, "uncock your muskets, one of them may go off by accident; and if the shot chanced to wound one of my men, we should knock over a couple of hundreds of yours, for which we should, indeed, be very sorry, but you even more so; especially as such a thing is neither contemplated by you nor by myself." "If you did that," cried the burghers, "we should have a pop at you, too."
"Willingly." And d'Artagnan set the example. Then, turning toward Planchet, he made him a sign to uncock his musketoon. The Englishmen, convinced of these peaceful proceedings, sheathed their swords grumblingly. The history of Athos's imprisonment was then related to them; and as they were really gentlemen, they pronounced the host in the wrong.
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