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The newcomer was a tough customer, and should certainly have gone in first. For he was one of those aggravating batsmen who keep a steady bat at everything, who never aspire to a slog, never walk out to a slow, never step back to a yorker, are never too soon for a lob, or too late for a shooter in fact, who play the safe plodding game in the face of all temptation.
But, would you believe me, while he was eating, those mosquitoes had sneaked up and taken away his bean shooter. “Oh, this is terrible!” cried Bawly, as he saw that his tin shooter was gone. “Now I can’t fight them any more.”
Drink was at the bottom of it. Red he sees my pard passing a saloon, and he says, 'Hello, where did you come from? Come and have a drink! Pard says, 'No, I don't want nothing! 'Oh, come along and have a drink! Dick says, 'No, thanks, pard, I'm not drinking to-night. 'Well, I guess you'll have a drink with me'; and Red pulls out his six shooter.
And that was all Jack could get him to say on the subject. But the boy was very proud of his "gun," and a little curious as to just why his uncle had given it to him, so that night, when they were alone a moment, he said: "Larry, that shooter is bully! It's great to have it. I'd rather have it at my hip than be in a position sometime to wish I had it."
At last the skin was off, and the Hottentot said, "Me take this to my kraal, and dey all say, 'Squat a great shooter; kill um lion." Then Staines saw another chance for him, and summoned all his address for a last effort. "No, Squat," said he, "that skin belongs to me. I shot the lion, with the only rifle that can kill a lion like a cat. Yet you would not give me a diamond a paltry stone for it.
"But somebody did go there," came from Aunt Ellen with a knowing nod. They laughed at that, even Mr. Mayer, who appeared only languidly interested, his eyes on the film of wine in the bottom of his glass. "Who do you suppose it could have been?" asked Chrystie. "A duck shooter, probably." This was Mr. Mayer's first contribution to the subject.
In consequence of this arrangement the furnishing of the larder devolved wholly upon me, and I soon acquired a considerable amount of skill in bringing down my game, principally birds, either by a dexterous cast of my club, or by means of a long reed tube, like an exaggerated pea- shooter, from which I puffed little reed darts to a great distance with considerable force.
I'd say he ain't a bad looker. That would be about right." "He is handsome, Linton!" "Well, likely he is to a woman. I've heard that there's been women which thought him a heap good lookin'." "Where, Linton?" she asked, quickly. "Why, in Pardo, ma'am. There was a biscuit shooter in a eatin'-house there that was sure wild about Harlan she followed him around a heap."
And to many Americans, no right is dearer than the right to kill the game which by even the commonest law of equity belongs, not to the shooter exclusively, but partly to two thousand other persons who don't shoot at all! Unless we come to an "About, face!" in quick time, all our big game outside the preserves is doomed to sure and quick extermination.
"It almost makes my ghost-ship boil when I think of the way in which he used to amuse himself by making me a target for his bean shooter. Often when I was asleep in the button-ball he would fetch me one on the side of the head that would give me an earache for a week. But now it is our turn." Here the other turkeys broke into a wild chorus of approval.
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